Matt Rickard

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12-05-23

Pseudonyms in American History

12-04-23

12-02-23

McNamara Fallacy

11-29-23

Standard Causes of Human Misjudgment (Munger)

11-28-23

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Monte Carlo

11-27-23

Razor and Blades Model

11-25-23

Are Things Getting Worse?

11-23-23

Duties of a Board of Directors

11-21-23

Take Your Time Making Decisions

11-20-23

The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

11-19-23

The Catilinarian Conspiracy

11-17-23

11-12-23

11-11-23

The Lucretius Problem

11-10-23

The Call to Adventure

11-06-23

To be, or not to be; ay, there’s the point.

11-01-23

Mechanical Turks

10-31-23

Regulatory Capture in the Railroad Industry

10-25-23

Positioning Yourself Near the Opportunity

10-21-23

The Silent Todo List

10-14-23

An Intelligent Wikipedia

10-11-23

Black Swan by Shakespeare

10-08-23

The American Experiment

10-05-23

10-04-23

The Benefit of a Personal Notation

09-30-23

Compression / Learning Duality

09-25-23

Observer-Expectancy at Scale

09-23-23

The Fundamental Attribution Error

09-15-23

09-04-23

08-31-23

Imputavi, Computavi, Putavi.

08-24-23

Adding Constraints

08-22-23

Beating the Average

08-18-23

Directly Responsible Individuals

08-17-23

Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design

08-15-23

Learning Via Negativa

08-12-23

Dark Mode and Marginal Benefit

08-09-23

08-05-23

Prescriptive vs. Descriptive Feedback

08-04-23

Focus On What Could Go Right (Not Wrong)

07-31-23

Minimum Effective Dose and Discrete Outcomes

07-28-23

Modern Samizdat Libraries

07-27-23

07-18-23

Diffusion of Innovation

07-16-23

Schopenhauer's 36 Stratagems for Winning Arguments

07-09-23

Towards Technical CEOs

07-06-23

Customer Obsession is the Only Winning Strategy

06-28-23

Monopolizing Useless Resources

06-27-23

06-24-23

Clear, Simple, and Wrong

06-18-23

Unforced Errors

06-14-23

Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing

06-10-23

Biography of an Idea

05-28-23

Two Years of Daily Blogging

05-25-23

A List of Things I Was Wrong About

05-22-23

Twitter and the Idea Maze

05-20-23

05-13-23

Taylor Swift and Launch Cadence

05-06-23

Second-level Thinking

05-01-23

Applications of Category Theory

04-20-23

Peanut Butter Manifesto (2006)

04-18-23

Stochastic/Deterministic

04-16-23

Everyday Fourier Transforms

04-15-23

On The Shortness Of Life

04-12-23

Imperative, Declarative, Interrogative, and Exclamatory Interfaces

04-11-23

But / Therefore

03-24-23

03-14-23

Gell-Mann Amnesia

03-04-23

The Stoic Arrow

02-27-23

More Art than Science

02-22-23

Erdős Vocabulary

02-20-23

Amdahl's Law and Optimization

02-15-23

Ask Yourself Dumb Questions

02-14-23

Carrying a Dozen Problems

02-06-23

Applications of Gall's Law

02-02-23

Optimal Stopping Theory

01-31-23

Zero Interest Rate Policy Phenomena

01-27-23

Eisenhower Priority Matrix

01-17-23

All Models Are Wrong (But Some Are Useful)

01-15-23

Output vs. Outcome

01-14-23

Garbage In, Garbage out?

01-13-23

Winning Ugly and The Metagame

01-09-23

01-03-23

Counterfactuals

01-01-23

Top Posts of 2022

12-31-22

2023 Predictions

12-28-22

Reflections on 2022 Predictions

12-27-22

Proebsting's Law

12-26-22

Turing Social: Twitter, For Bots

12-25-22

12-11-22

12-09-22

12-08-22

Spam Filtering AI Content

12-07-22

Google Takeout and Data Portability

12-03-22

A Conversation with ChatGPT

12-01-22

11-26-22

Technical Posts Overview and Roundup

11-25-22

Schelling Point

11-24-22

Showing Up Every Day

11-21-22

Excel for Developers

11-16-22

Solving the Simple Case

11-10-22

Information Barbell

11-08-22

11-06-22

Generational Advantages

11-03-22

Man in the Arena

10-30-22

And Yet it Moves

10-25-22

Daily is the Product

10-18-22

Richard Feynman and Narrative

10-16-22

10-15-22

Getting Stuck in the Past

10-13-22

The Middle Squeeze

10-12-22

A Personal Training Corpus

10-08-22

Risk vs. Uncertainty

10-03-22

Screenshots as the Universal API

10-02-22

The Steffen Boarding Method

09-28-22

Simple Group Theory

09-26-22

Startup Ideas I've Considered

09-25-22

Hard to Compute, Simple to Verify

09-14-22

The Inventor's Paradox

08-23-22

A Short List of Cognitive Biases

08-21-22

Tool-driven Scientific Revolutions

08-18-22

Friction as a Proxy for Value

08-11-22

Growing the Pie

08-08-22

Braess's paradox

08-06-22

On Unoptimizing

07-31-22

07-26-22

Adverse Selection Examples

07-17-22

Shannon's Demon

07-13-22

Hotelling's Law and Differentiation

07-07-22

07-01-22

Does Financial Policy Matter?

06-24-22

06-23-22

Panic of 1907/2022

06-15-22

Path of Least Resistance

06-13-22

The Last Question

06-11-22

Work Expands to Fill the Space

05-28-22

One Year of Daily Blogging

05-26-22

Computer Tips For Everyday People From a Software Engineer

05-24-22

List of All Oblique Strategies

05-18-22

05-09-22

The Economics of Seinfeld

05-04-22

Correlation vs. Causation

04-29-22

04-27-22

Path Dependence

04-16-22

Annus Mirabilis

04-08-22

Backwardation and Contango

04-01-22

Type 1 and Type 2 Errors

03-29-22

On Standardized Tests

03-26-22

Carthago Delenda Est

03-24-22

How to Negotiate a Car Lease

03-22-22

Working on the Right Problems

03-19-22

03-16-22

Problems with Daylight Saving Time

03-13-22

Sword of Damocles

03-09-22

Exponential Trends

03-08-22

Ignore Sunk Costs

03-03-22

03-02-22

02-24-22

Remote Work Zealotry

02-20-22

Order of Magnitudes

02-19-22

Regression to the Mean

02-10-22

Rickard's Law of Eponymy

02-09-22

Optimization is Fragile

02-06-22

Onion Futures Act and Saturated Channels

02-02-22

Rethinking the PDF

01-31-22

Keynesian Beauty Contest

01-28-22

Flying-Car Syndrome

01-27-22

Dumb (and Free) Interchange

01-17-22

01-12-22

Reversing the Chicago River

01-11-22

Veto Power and Decision-Making Process

01-09-22

Maxwell's Equations and Bridges

01-07-22

Wordle: What's the Best Starting Word?

01-04-22

Strategy Beyond Markets

01-01-22

Antifragile in 2022

12-31-21

2022 Predictions

12-28-21

Russell Conjugation and The Great Rebranding

12-26-21

Virtual Reality this Christmas

12-24-21

Ownership in the Twenty-First Century

12-23-21

Lost Art of Arch Linux

12-21-21

Twitch's Gini Coefficient

12-20-21

12-17-21

12-16-21

Top 10 Posts of 2021

12-15-21

90% of Everything is Crap

12-14-21

Unused Gift Cards are Great Business

12-13-21

Metaverse and Other Words from Science Fiction

12-10-21

The Leopard of Kilimanjaro

12-08-21

Hollywood Accounting

12-07-21

Direct Registration System (DRS)

12-06-21

The Toyota Production System

12-05-21

It's Impossible to Design a Watch that Only Tells Time

12-02-21

The Most Entertaining Outcome is the Most Likely

12-01-21

Jane Jacobs and Software Engineering

11-29-21

Achilles and the Tortoise

11-24-21

The Sailing Ship Effect

11-21-21

The Gordian Knot

11-18-21

Being Wrong on Hacker News

11-15-21

Mining Crypto on My M1 Max

11-14-21

No Time to Read Bad Books

11-13-21

The Goat Behind the Door

11-06-21

The Cloud Cost Era

11-05-21

The Next Design Systems

11-04-21

Rich Barton and Zillow

11-02-21

Niche Communities

11-01-21

I Miss The Programmable Web

10-31-21

Chesterton's Fence

10-30-21

Cloud Growth in 2021

10-26-21

Kelly Criterion

10-25-21

Remote Work for Developers

10-24-21

Solving Supply Chain with a Tweet

10-23-21

How Complex Systems Fail

10-18-21

Zuckerberg on Platforms

10-07-21

10-03-21

09-28-21

A Hypothesis is a Liability

09-07-21

09-04-21

Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?

08-28-21

08-27-21

The Clever Hans Effect

08-25-21

The Map is Not The Territory

08-21-21

History of Silicon Valley: 1891-1956

08-18-21

Hire for slope, not Y-Intercept

08-15-21

08-12-21

Signaling Against Asymmetric Markets

08-07-21

Coding Classical Latin

08-03-21

Silence Dogood and the Ben Franklin Effect

07-29-21

07-28-21

Don't Break the Chain

07-26-21

How to Spot a Made Up Number

07-22-21

Orthogonal or Parallel Problems

07-21-21

07-18-21

07-13-21

The Potato Paradox

07-08-21

07-07-21

07-05-21

High-Velocity Decision-Making

07-04-21

Makers of Patterns: Part 2

07-03-21

Maker of Patterns: Part 1

06-30-21

Jevons Paradox and Software Efficiency

06-28-21

Survivorship Bias

06-22-21

Reducing Errors in Decision-Making

06-21-21

First Principles

06-17-21

Observations of the Lindy Effect

06-07-21

Problem Solving Techniques from Math

05-30-21

05-29-21

What's Measured Gets Managed

07-09-20

Is Technology Making Us More Productive?