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Location: Prescott, Arizona Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: I've mostly built around data-heavy systems, and I'm familiar with the typical tools in that space. In…

"Are (legally and morally) entitled" vs "act as if they are entitled"... yes, a big question.

I've been thinking a lot about team formation and competence hierarchies in the age of AI. I'm particularly concerned about the disruption that occurs when performance and output o…

I like the creativity of the new form factor. My son and I are working on a spending journal which puts forth a new kind of form factor for tracking expenses. Our emphasis is less …

I remember near the start of HashiCorp, Mitchell and I spoke about buying one of his side projects. In seeking to rustle up some funds, friends asked me why anyone would offload a …

https://spendlight.com My 13-year old son and I have been working on a behavior-oriented personal finance tool. I've kicked this idea around for years, and we had a chance to use i…

MPP | SaaS-savvy Product Leader | Remote Get in on the ground floor (2nd hire) of a new B2B, data-heavy venture. We're looking for someone with hard-earned street smarts, and can h…

I think I'm going to start asking potential employers where they do their banking.

Location: Prescott, AZ Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Resume/CV: https://dataxam.com/about Technologies: Python, SQL, R, dbt, Snowflake, Postgres, D3, Spark, Flask, HTML, CSS,…

Integrating into the operations on a provisional evaluation basis is a whole lot of work and the stakes are high. As my grandpa used to say, "There's nothing easier than doing noth…

Does the algo work? Is it better than the status quo and under what circumstances is it susceptible to failure? Does it know when the whole system is over-constrained? If we assume…

We ran a pilot with one carrier for a subset of their crew for maybe a year, but eventually failed to gain further traction. Very tough sales and implementation cycle in spite of t…

About a decade ago, I was part of a startup trying to disrupt crew scheduling. It's a non-trivial operations problem when you aim to honor crew preferences, union-negotiated afford…

Great feedback. There are several sample lessons, but from your feedback I see how I can make them easier to find.

Over a year ago, I purchased a small online business selling life skills curriculum to homeschool and special education families. The main asset was the library of 400+ lessons, ea…

I built https://www.spendlight.com/ for my wife and I to not just track spending but to get a handle on our sentiment around our spending choices. While we still have different rea…

If you really want to gain knowledge and confidence in the fundamentals, spend some time watching (in real time, NOT sped up) an excellent artist. Good art is often very slow. I sa…

The footer has more links for "Legal" than for "Product"... a sign of the times.

Catasys | REMOTE | Sr. AI Engineer | good pay We're in the healthcare space working on some pretty compelling problems at the convergence of behavioral health and chronic condition…

I enjoyed reading this recent post from Nathan Barry, which tells some of his story: https://nathanbarry.com/homeschool/

If you enjoy Mark Twain, the John Greenman readings ( https://librivox.org/reader/107 ) are fantastic.

I am going through this Udemy course with my kid and it's really enjoyable. The instructor is clear and really enjoys the topic: https://www.udemy.com/course/analog-electronics-rob…

I've recently ramped up work on something along these lines aimed specifically at personal finances (see my profile if interested... won't spam this thread). It's a spending journa…

I'm working on https://spendlight.com a SMS-powered spending journal. With all the uncertainty and risk to our personal finances, it seems fitting to work on a project that will (w…