Eduardo Argollo
@argollo.com
“Imagine you were about to be born but didn’t know as whom: rich or poor, urban or rural, sick or healthy. Before learning your status, you have to choose what kind of society you’d live in. What would you want?”
Where would you prefer to be born today? What type of society should we aim to build?
Where would you prefer to be born today? What type of society should we aim to build?
October 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“Imagine you were about to be born but didn’t know as whom: rich or poor, urban or rural, sick or healthy. Before learning your status, you have to choose what kind of society you’d live in. What would you want?”
Where would you prefer to be born today? What type of society should we aim to build?
Where would you prefer to be born today? What type of society should we aim to build?
‘"language models will get cheaper by 10x" will not save ai subscriptions from the short squeeze’ - Great read: ethanding.substack.com/p/ai-subscri...
tokens are getting more expensive
"language models will get cheaper by 10x" will not save ai subscriptions from the short squeeze
ethanding.substack.com
September 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
‘"language models will get cheaper by 10x" will not save ai subscriptions from the short squeeze’ - Great read: ethanding.substack.com/p/ai-subscri...
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Not only are Palestinians starving to death, they are being killed as they try to access food.
August 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Not only are Palestinians starving to death, they are being killed as they try to access food.
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
June 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Leetcode and “system design” interviews gave us a generation that can Big O and cache the hell out of anything but has no idea what coupling or cohesion mean.
June 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Leetcode and “system design” interviews gave us a generation that can Big O and cache the hell out of anything but has no idea what coupling or cohesion mean.
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any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin
archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...
archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...
May 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin
archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...
archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...
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The US is gripped by vibes over reason and confirmation bias over science.
Conspiracy theories are now influencing government policy at the federal and state level from vaccine denial to removing fluoride from the water.
Progress isn’t linear and it’s sad we got complacent enough to believe it was
Conspiracy theories are now influencing government policy at the federal and state level from vaccine denial to removing fluoride from the water.
Progress isn’t linear and it’s sad we got complacent enough to believe it was
April 27, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The US is gripped by vibes over reason and confirmation bias over science.
Conspiracy theories are now influencing government policy at the federal and state level from vaccine denial to removing fluoride from the water.
Progress isn’t linear and it’s sad we got complacent enough to believe it was
Conspiracy theories are now influencing government policy at the federal and state level from vaccine denial to removing fluoride from the water.
Progress isn’t linear and it’s sad we got complacent enough to believe it was
"Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable"
Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower
April 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable"
Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” Richard Feynman
April 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” Richard Feynman
Never forget Gall’s Law:
"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work."
"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work."
March 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Never forget Gall’s Law:
"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work."
"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work."
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I'd like to bring this video to your attention.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...
It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...
It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.
Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
www.youtube.com
March 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I'd like to bring this video to your attention.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...
It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...
It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.
Interesting opinionated configuration of Git for developers: blog.gitbutler.com/how-git-core...
How Core Git Developers Configure Git
What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core developers change.
blog.gitbutler.com
March 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Interesting opinionated configuration of Git for developers: blog.gitbutler.com/how-git-core...
“Never let a good crisis go to waste”
February 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“Never let a good crisis go to waste”
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".
- Goodhart's law
- Goodhart's law
February 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".
- Goodhart's law
- Goodhart's law
"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."
-- Leon Bambrick
-- Leon Bambrick
January 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."
-- Leon Bambrick
-- Leon Bambrick
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I fear there is deep truth here.
January 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I fear there is deep truth here.
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How Shopify built their innovative 3D Live Globe in 2024.
Tech stack: React + R3F, some Rails, Go, Flink+Kafka
Details on how the team went from idea, through design, to shipping and oncall: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/shopify-bl...
Tech stack: React + R3F, some Rails, Go, Flink+Kafka
Details on how the team went from idea, through design, to shipping and oncall: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/shopify-bl...
December 17, 2024 at 5:23 PM
How Shopify built their innovative 3D Live Globe in 2024.
Tech stack: React + R3F, some Rails, Go, Flink+Kafka
Details on how the team went from idea, through design, to shipping and oncall: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/shopify-bl...
Tech stack: React + R3F, some Rails, Go, Flink+Kafka
Details on how the team went from idea, through design, to shipping and oncall: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/shopify-bl...
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When I hear people talk about deregulation, what I'm really hearing them say is: "any limitation on harming people is a limitation on profits".
December 6, 2024 at 3:38 AM
When I hear people talk about deregulation, what I'm really hearing them say is: "any limitation on harming people is a limitation on profits".
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The purpose of a system is what it does. The machine is never broken. anildash.com/2024/05/29/s...
December 5, 2024 at 1:07 PM
The purpose of a system is what it does. The machine is never broken. anildash.com/2024/05/29/s...
“It’s impressive what a tiny team of experienced engineers can build”
Small highly motivated purpose driven teams are unbelievably powerful.
Small highly motivated purpose driven teams are unbelievably powerful.
In case you missed it: Bluesky runs on-prem. They migrated off of AWS months back.
So yeah, they DO need to put orders in for servers! (Good luck to the dev team!)
More on their architecture: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky
So yeah, they DO need to put orders in for servers! (Good luck to the dev team!)
More on their architecture: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky
November 28, 2024 at 11:37 AM
“It’s impressive what a tiny team of experienced engineers can build”
Small highly motivated purpose driven teams are unbelievably powerful.
Small highly motivated purpose driven teams are unbelievably powerful.
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That journalist is @annodea.com and the interview got published in @siliconrepublic.bsky.social. Ann captured my thoughts perfectly. The success of this platform isn't solely on the Bluesky team, it's a shared responsibility, the community has a role to play. www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/k...
November 26, 2024 at 11:04 AM
That journalist is @annodea.com and the interview got published in @siliconrepublic.bsky.social. Ann captured my thoughts perfectly. The success of this platform isn't solely on the Bluesky team, it's a shared responsibility, the community has a role to play. www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/k...
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Do you know how dark Twitter has to be for *STEPHEN KING* to say it’s too dark
November 15, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Do you know how dark Twitter has to be for *STEPHEN KING* to say it’s too dark
Never underestimate the power of Conway’s law!
November 14, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Never underestimate the power of Conway’s law!
A must read: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power | Carole Cadwalladr
The era that began with the Great Disruptor’s first term is over. Beware the emerging elite
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2024 at 10:11 PM
A must read: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...