TIL: Today I learned...

An high-level overview of things I learned from Justin Welsh’s LinkedIn Operating System course.

My key takeaways from reading Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis and Matt Housley.

I put the book to use after the first listen, and will definitely revisit it in the future to form better habits.

Jonathan Stark makes a compelling argument why you should have the three Cs before quitting your job to go solo consulting.

Reflecting on an interview with Jason Warner, CEO of poolside.

When focusing on a market segment defined by personal beliefs, it’s often fine to position yourself as a generalist in your craft.

Repeated exposure to media personas creates relationships that help justify premium fees.

With the commodification of data scientists, the problem of positioning has become more common: My takeaways from Genevieve Hayes interviewing Jonathan Stark.

An interesting approach to bidding of energy storage assets, showing that training on New York data is transferable to Queensland.

One of my many highlights from Helen Czerski’s Blue Machine.

For many use cases, libraries like cartopy are better than the likes of Mapbox and Google Maps.

Replacing ‘artificial intelligence’ with ‘automation’ is a useful trick for cutting through the hype.

It turns out that problems like finding a niche and defining the ideal clients are key to any solo business.

Despite the excitement around large language models, building with machine learning remains an engineering problem with established best practices.

While I found the story of Gumroad interesting, The Minimalist Entrepreneur seems to over-generalise from the founder’s experience.

A summary of the second chapter of Rob Walling’s Start Small, Stay Small, along with my thoughts & reflections.

A summary of the first chapter of Rob Walling’s Start Small, Stay Small, along with my thoughts & reflections.

GitHub publishes an Atom feed, which means you can use any RSS reader to follow commits.

Turns out that the rule of thirds for composing visuals may not be that important.

Some pointers for setting up SSH access with YubiKey on Ubuntu 22.04.

How I added a Today I Learned section to my Hugo site with the PaperMod theme.

Time can be spent doing different activities, but it can’t be stored and saved for later.