Nerd
Systems thinking for people who build things.
Everything is a system. Your company, your code, your brain, your life. The same patterns show up everywhere once you know how to look.
This is computational thinking applied to everything—without the productivity porn or the life-hack cringe.
Complexity 101: Emergent Beasts vs. Clockwork Toys
Human intuition fails catastrophically with complex adaptive systems. Understand emergence, feedback loops, and why typical approaches backfire.
Conway's Ghost: Orgs as Code Mirrors
Organizational structure directly determines system architecture. Communication patterns shape technical boundaries.
Why AI Makes Smart People Smarter and Everyone Else Replaceable
AI creates a cognitive divide: experts sharpen thinking while others experience mental model erosion. Your spine is your moat.
Distributed Truths: CAP's Knife and Eventual Lies
Why distributed systems force trade-offs that feel like bugs but are actually physics. Proven mathematically impossible in 2002.
Failure Engineering: Blast Radii and Error Budgets
Why designing for failure is the only way to not fail. Every complex system will fail—the question is what happens when it does.
The Machine Learns What Taleb Already Knew
AI independently discovered what Taleb argued for decades: financial returns follow fat-tailed distributions.
