Rough Times

Posted on Sun 30 August 2026 in grit • Tagged with ambition, persitence

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A Rough 18 Months on the Flight Deck: Using the experience of Linux Kernel maintainers to build HRO's in the Age of AI

An aircraft-carrier flight deck is an improbable place to look for reassurance.Aircraft land on a moving ship. Jet engines, fuel, ordnance, people, vehicles, and heavy machinery …

Wise Fools

Posted on Tue 12 August 2025 in education • Tagged with ambition, persitence

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Holy and Wise: The mythology and contributions of the fool in mathematics and physics

On August 8th, the NY Times published a long essay about Allan Brooks who fell under a dellusion that he had "had discovered a novel mathematical formula, one that could take down the internet and power …