HOW TO : Build a validated dataset with a decision model
I used Jev, a decision model, to sort 43,202 Texas food permits by cuisine in six minutes for about $1.30. Fast, cheap, no made-up answers, but a confident answer still isn’t a correct one.
Turning the Tao of Backup into Manga
Data backup wisdom meets manga. I used Meta’s Muse to turn the master-and-student lessons from Dr. Ross Williams’s taobackup.com into a comic.
Overheard : Contracts are about disagreements
Gary Keller calls contracts "disagreements," because the only time you reread one is when something has gone wrong. So write them to handle disputes, not to record moments of agreement. It's Charlie Munger's favorite advice in action: "Invert, always invert."
Overheard : England, Britain, and the UK Aren't the Same Thing
HOW TO : Check DNS from different locations with Cloudflare Workers
I wanted to know whether lab.kudithipudi.org resolves the same way in São Paulo as it does in Ashburn. Instead of managing VMs around the world, I used eight region-pinned Cloudflare Durable Objects to run DNS-over-HTTPS lookups from different locations and compare the answers.
Overheard : Don't be nice
A reflection on the difference between being nice and being kind. Nice is about pleasing other people. Kindness is about being authentic enough to hold boundaries and have the hard conversations that matter.