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Judgment slips when decisions become emotional — when you're defending a person, a past call, or a principle rather than solving the problem in front of you. Four signals to watch for in yourself, and four ways to guard against them.
Notes from the IEEPA tariff oral arguments. "Regulate importation" can plausibly mean tariff — but the power to tax is squarely Congress's, the Major Questions and Non-Delegation Doctrines bite, and the one-way ratchet of presidential power makes this near-unanimous against the administration.
Notes from judging a high school parliamentary debate. The opposing side isn't an adversary, it's a collaborator in a joint quest for truth — and the kitchen-sink approach loses on me every time. Logos 70%, ethos 20%, pathos 10%.
Andrew Grove treats management as a production system, but the deeper claim is that information workers are managers — their raw material is information, their output is influence. In modern Big Tech, being "a manager" isn't a promotion. It's just different work.
Read narrowly, Wong Kim Ark's actual holding only covers children of permanent legal residents. For 127 years, every branch followed the broader dicta instead — until now. A close reading of holding versus dicta, reliance interest, and what the Court is likely to do.
Healthcare's fragmentation isn't an accident — it's federalism plus misaligned incentives, where EHR vendors profit by locking customers in. NexHealth's Synchronizer attacks the problem at the technical layer, with the law (and a recent 4th Circuit ruling) on its side, eventually.
My operating principles: be serious but not too serious, be curious and build a shared mind, be radically transparent, move fast and break things.
How WhatsApp actually worked: Erlang/BEAM/OTP all the way down, the biggest machines money could buy, location-transparent actors, and code hotloading as deployment. They bucked every Cloud Computing canon and ran the world's largest messaging system with a tiny team.
California's non-partisan commission produced a worse minority seat-to-vote ratio than Texas's partisan one in 2024. The deeper culprit isn't gerrymandering — it's winner-takes-all single-seat districts. Multi-seat districts with ranked-choice voting would do real work here.
A short verse on the choice between half-full and half-empty — I think it is a very important choice. It is a fundamental choice. It affects you more in your life, Much more than in your work.
