Patrick McKenzie

Apparently the second word on the syllabus was "key." This is an unconventional approach to the Dolch sight words, but I like it.

(Her pedagogy game is strong.)

Proudest fatherhood moment to date: Lillian (age 3): "I will say I. I. I. I. Now you say I." Liam (age 1): "I." Lillian: "Good job!" Lillian (whispers to me): "Teaching Liam to talk so he is less boring."

I rather enjoy the game (which is a great team bonding activity if you don't end up wanting to kill each other) but it's the opposite of meditative.

Me: "Ah it's the world's worst production line designer." Overcooked 2: "'sup." "Did you again design a kitchen impossible to keep productive?" "Oh yes." "But clearly there's more." "I put it in a hot-air balloon." "Of course you did." "The balloon is on fire."

The history of the financial industry has a number of these but the Satoshi scheme obsoletes them all; it is the standard against which all future fraud prions should be judged.

Me: "I'd like to use a FULL OUTER JOIN." Query planner: "Yeah?" "On a table with billions of rows." "Pretty sure I did that in 1970." "It's going to join the table against itself." "You seem excessively worried." "Twice." "Look, you're not talking to a #%() blockchain."

Above observation inspired this morning by this HN thread but heavily informed by many years of talking to people about this and time running a company which saw the stupid results up close and personal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17848477 …

PSA: Tech interview loops are essentially random number generators, not reliable psychometric screens or tests, and you should assume less than 20 NO_HIRE results are indistinguishable from statistical noise.

(I have an odds-on pick for who is winning younger millenials in this calculus and while I'm not thrilled at the reasons *why* they're winning in terms of product selection or marketing voice, they are at least trying.)

And then 10~15 years later the winner of that "Who captures the zeitgeist of a generation?" competition has, predictably, several tens of billions of AUM and stodgier firms wonder who could have seen that coming.

I think we're destined to see a new wave of brokerages, and probably one standout, pop up every ~10 years for the forseeable future, explicitly targeting new generations or micro-generations, at a point which existing industry says "Pah they have no assets why bother."

*don’t get much

(I assume there are other trajectories it will work well for, too, but if you’re already deep in security you probably don’t get me from hearing me talk it up, whereas if you’ve built Python web apps but always thought that robbing banks would be a fun intellectual challenge...)

This is, IMHO, likely the best job in the world if you want to move from being a generalist in technology to the security field. (I previously co-founded a company with two of the principals here.)https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/1033475947910111232 …

The last time I went into a doc-in-the-box for “I have classic cold symptoms but since I have a baby at home want to rule out anything worse” it was like 5X the cost of glasses to get 3 minutes of a doctor’s time and a NP to explain “Yep it does look like you have a cold.”

I have to think some of it is the embedded efficiency of cash payments, since there is almost literally nothing I could purchase from a US medical provider for less than the cost of an eye exam and glasses, even if paying cash.