Scorsese said "the most personal is the most creative". Same principle. The less you optimize for the audience, the more they actually want to read it. Funny timing or serendipity.. I just published about this today in a space where I'm working on thinking publicly

Years ago, I started a habit. Whenever a friend welcomed a new baby, I'd gift them a stock certificate. Usually an S&P 500 index fund. Sometimes whatever was hot that year: Tesla, Netflix, something with momentum. I've been thinking about those certificates lately. Did any of

"The most personal is the most creative" said Martin Scorsese. This is why I don't use AI to write my essays or generate my illustrations. https://t.co/8xl3W3k1jF

What the Hell Is Entropy?

Was watching Friends with Sara last night, and something hit me. I wke up thinking about it. Look at Monica's apartment. Joey's kitchen. Central Perk. Nothing matches. Clutter everywhere. Mismatched furniture. Bright colors fighting each other. It feels alive. Now look at any

The problem of semantic drift was solved in the 1990s. Ontologies. Knowledge graphs. Formal semantics. The theory is mature. The technology works. Adoption requires more organizational commitment than most companies will make. So we keep building dashboards that lie to us.

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Saturday Cigar Talk. AI Won't Fix Your Data Problems. It'll Make Them Worse.

Going live in 10 minutes. Lighting a cigar and talking about why AI won't fix your data problems. It'll make them worse. Hot take Saturday. Come fight me.

The data doesn't break. It just stops being true.

Snowflake cost optimization pattern I see every Q4: 10-15% of compute comes from one analyst who wrote a recursive CTE in 2022. They left the company in 2023. The query still runs. Search your query history for "recursive". You'll find it.

Nobody actually gives a shit. Name one empire or great power in history that ever lost sleep over its image abroad while it was on top.. The rest of the world obsessed over them, talked about them nonstop, hated them, envied them. That’s the deal. When foreigners are this

Real honest uqestion.. You know, Github Copilot can now create entire pull requests from issues, write the code, run tests, open the PR, summarize the changes, and fix review comments on its own. So: How are you actually using Copilot agents for PRs in production right now?

we're against entropy

Happy Thanksgiving to the Nucleus family. Some of us are at crowded tables today. Some of us are on quiet decks, watching the trees. We’re scattered across time zones and dinner tables. But we’re in this together. I see you. Thankful for you. Happy Thanksgiving from my quiet

In a world where we're together alone, this makes a lot of sense. Having someone to talk to for a season is invaluable. Those who've been on the other side can truly value this.

I bet you $500 I can find $5,000 of wasted Snowflake spend in your logs. The Deal: 1. Buy the "Deep Scan" for $500. 2. Run my script (Zero access needed). 3. I send you the Waste Map. Guarantee: If I don't find $5k in savings, I refund you immediately. Get your Q4 budget back

It sounds corny, but it really is important. Think personally, professionally and even in the systems you build.

This feels exactly like when the typewriter was invented. Suddenly anyone could pour thoughts onto the page at the speed of thinking.. Books, letters, manifestos exploded. Vibe coding is the typewriter moment for software: your ideas turn into running code as fast as you can

3. There are 8 more checks around Cortex usage, SPCS, etc. Don't have time to dig through logs? I'm running Deep Scan Audits all week. Cost: $500 (Flat) Guarantee: If I don't find $5k in savings, it's free. Privacy: Zero access required. Book your slot before Q4 ends: