Jamie Osler
@jamieosler.com
I wrote a little bit about how the value of writing things down has gone way up with the advent of AI. jamieosler.com/writing-is-m...
Writing is more valuable with AI
As knowledge workers, we write things down all the time. We write to think through problems, we write to express ideas to a machine, and we write to communicate our thoughts and understanding to other...
jamieosler.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I wrote a little bit about how the value of writing things down has gone way up with the advent of AI. jamieosler.com/writing-is-m...
Been thinking a bunch about personal analytics - it’d be really nice to have a rich set of events for everything going on. Every meeting, bit of work etc. Any open source #software for this? I mostly just want something I can host and send free form events to.
November 13, 2024 at 12:20 AM
Been thinking a bunch about personal analytics - it’d be really nice to have a rich set of events for everything going on. Every meeting, bit of work etc. Any open source #software for this? I mostly just want something I can host and send free form events to.
Reposting this excellent article from my colleague about some of the challenges in building a high performance spreadsheet in the browser. Even formatting cells is hard!
engineering.equals.com/p/building-a...
engineering.equals.com/p/building-a...
Building a High Performance Spreadsheet in the Browser
Spreadsheets are easy. You're a decent engineer, you could probably hack one together over a weekend, right? Turns out that rectangles are hard.
engineering.equals.com
November 12, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Reposting this excellent article from my colleague about some of the challenges in building a high performance spreadsheet in the browser. Even formatting cells is hard!
engineering.equals.com/p/building-a...
engineering.equals.com/p/building-a...
Helping others avoid the misalignment Chris speaks so well about here open.substack.com/pub/wraptext... is a large motivator for me in building Equals. Clearly defining what metrics everyone is tracking, and having a clear strategy to reconcile is key to being able to effectively engineer solutions.
Why Sales and Finance can't agree on ARR
When you can't see eye to eye on performance, here's how to bridge the gap.
open.substack.com
November 5, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Helping others avoid the misalignment Chris speaks so well about here open.substack.com/pub/wraptext... is a large motivator for me in building Equals. Clearly defining what metrics everyone is tracking, and having a clear strategy to reconcile is key to being able to effectively engineer solutions.
I’ve some sort of lame superpower related to parsing numbers with 10 digits.
October 30, 2024 at 1:15 AM
I’ve some sort of lame superpower related to parsing numbers with 10 digits.