Blockchain is not decentralised

I keep hearing an opinion that “Bitcoin (or any cryptocurrency, or blockchain in general) is…

Summary of “Working Backwards”, a book about Amazon’s culture

Principles, causal models, the role of…

Megapost about causality: the summary of “The Book of Why” by Pearl and Mackenzie and more ideas

Reflection on two years of writing evergreen notes: not optimal for skill acquisition and learning

The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle — notes on the book

Engineering Ideas #1

TLA+ in industry, caching challenges, positive vs. negative thinking about…

The practices of information systems architecture

System analysis, risk analysis, requirements management, systems management, system synthesis, enterprise architecture, and change management

The two conceptions of Active Inference: an intelligence architecture and a theory of agency

I think much of the confusion about Active Inference arises because the term is used to refer to two related, yet distinct concepts (one can also call them abstractions…

The circular problem of epistemic irresponsibility

Problem statement

The problem of epistemic irresponsibility, as I will call it in this post, is that people sometimes agree that their reasoning (and hence models that they hold and use as the basis of…

Types of models, algorithms, theories, and explanations