Sitemap - 2024 - Augment, Stay Human

How I'm Learning AI (as a Staff Data Engineer)

The Key to Modern AI: How I Finally Understood Self-Attention (With PyTorch)

12,000 Dimensions of Meaning: How I Finally Understood LLM Attention

Thinking in Higher Dimensions: A Simple Way to Do It

Build Your First Neural Network in Python - Basic Concepts Only

How Neural Networks Work: Understanding Feedforward, Backpropagation, and the Training Loop

Building the Simplest Neural Network Possible

What is a Neural Network?

Impactful Listening & Effective Onboarding | Sophia Sithole, Founder Ofstaff

Shuffling in Spark: How to Balance Performance With Getting It Done

I just built my first Neural Network: Here's my framework for learning in public

Domain Expertise and AI Tools for Data Analysts | Meghan Maloy, Staff Analytics Engineer

Pilot Life, Basics of LLMs, and AI for Beginners | Greg Lettieri, Corporate Aviator

Start your Second Brain: A Quick Guide for Staff Engineers

Deploying AI Models at Scale | Eugene Weinstein, Engineering Director @ Google

How To Be A Consistent Learner

Finding Opportunities and Maximizing Impact: A Staff Engineer's Framework | Quick Bits

AI in the Classroom: From Teachers to Facilitators | Shawn Cryan, Educational Systems Coordinator

Handling Work Stress with Awareness & Homework for Life | Quick Bits #2

Augmented Intelligence for Engineers, Feynman Technique, FX Carry Trade | Quick Bits #1

AI for Sales, Augmentation, and Learning | Account Executive, Ryan Burwell

Senior to Staff Engineer: 3 Years of Wisdom from My Engineering Director

The Crowdstrike Incident: A developer mistake explained in 3 minutes

34 - AI for Real Life: Augmented Creativity, Robot Hockey, and storytelling with my friend Frankie

My Attempt at a Tree-View Hierarchical Summarizer to Read with AI

Making a Simple Web Game in Minutes with AI for My Daughter

Pushing the Right Buttons: How My Son Taught Me to Find High-Impact Work as a Staff Engineer

I binged two weeks of intro to LLM content, here's what I think is important for AI beginners

What is RAG and how can it be used to train LLMs on your own data?

I trained a local LLM on my Obsidian, here's what I learned

33 - A story of regret

My Framework for Learning in Public as a Staff Engineer

Key Takeaways from the Two Books That Helped Me Grow From Senior Engineer to Staff Engineer

Can You Still Achieve FIRE While Prioritizing Your Kids? My Experience as a Staff Engineer Finding Work-Life Balance With Two Little Kids.

What is storytelling and why should software engineers care?

#32 - What is storytelling and why should software engineers care?

The Data Quality Pyramid: A Path to Getting Started with Data Observability

#31 - An Interview with My 4 Year Old Son

How Can Data Engineers Keep Up With Industry Trends While Working Full-Time?

3 Communication Mistakes I Made as a Staff Engineer and How I’m Fixing Them

Iceberg has ACID Transactions: A Quick Guide to What that Means

A 3-Step Guide to Micro Naps for Work From Home Parents To Sustain Energy All Day

#30 - What I Learned After 30 days of Podcasting

#29 - Lessons from Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg

#28 - Finding your High Return on Time Invested Habits

#27 - How to take Smart Notes to Build your Second Brain

#26 - Investing is Simple, the Hardest Part is You

#25 - Why Full-Time Employees Should Be Part-Time Creators

#24 - Moving to the Lakehouse: From Hive to Iceberg

#23 - A Personal Story About Regret

#22 - How to Be OK With Being You

#21 - How to Turn Your Phone Addiction Into a Superpower

#20 - An Interview with My 5 Year Old Daughter

#19 - Why I'm Teaching My Kids to Fail

#18 - Knowing When to Quit on Your Dreams

#17 - Wealth is What You Don't See

#16 - Do Billionaires Get Imposter Syndrome Too?

#15 - How to Be the CEO of Your Career as an Employee

#14 - How to Keep Going When You're Stuck

#13 - Assume You Are Wrong and Learn From Everyone

#12 - How to Be Vulnerable and Slow Down Time

#11 - Optimize your Time Portfolio by Investing in More Memory Dividends

#10 - How the Slow, Simple Path to Wealth Makes You Happier

#9 - The Day a Dolphin Saved My Life and Made Me a Better Dad

#8 - How to Start a Podcast in 10 Minutes as a Part-Time Creator

#7 - The 3 Key Factors You Control to Build Wealth through Investing for Beginners

#6 - Why You Need to Take More Notes

#5 - How to Adapt to AI for Software Engineers

#4 - How to Survive Market Bubbles in Crypto for the Average Investor

#3 - Find Your Niche By Doing What Gives You Energy

#2 - How to Do Big Things Without Motivation

#1 - 30 Days of Podcasting, Writing, and Joyspan

Maximize Your Joyspan: A Life Philosophy for Balancing Success and Fullfillment

AI Engineer vs Augmented Engineer: What’s The Difference and Why it Matters for Software Engineers

Your Thinking Can't Be Automated: Use AI as a Tool not a Crutch

How Digital Creators Can Find Their Niche: From 5 of the Most Powerful Voices in the Space

The First-Time Digital Writer's Playbook to Finding Their Niche

After a Decade WFH here is My 5 Minute Morning Mobility Routine for Remote Workers with Tight Low Backs and Bad Posture

3 Advantages Remote Working Software Engineers Have for Career Growth, After a Decade of WFH in Tech

Acquire Any Skill in 100 Hours or Less: The Learn-Do-Think Framework

How do kids impact your path to FIRE? Here's how they made the path easier for me and 6 benefits that can offset the costs.

A Framework for Beginners to Write Useful GPT Prompts I Learned from a Prompt Engineering Champion

New to AI Prompt Writing? Learn How to Get Summaries That Cover All the Key Points You Care About

Why GitHub Copilot is the best AI tool for software engineers to learn in 2024 so that they can be more productive

How I made a mid-career transition from finance to tech: a framework for becoming a software engineer while working full time

Three Mistakes I Made Interviewing for My First Engineering Job While Transitioning Mid-Career

Ten years ago I transitioned from day trading to software engineering, here are 3 mistakes that made learning the new skills for my career switch take longer

The 5 Stages of Grief: A Guide for Software Engineers to Accept and Leverage AI

AI Adoption for Software Engineers: The Research and Why Delaying is a Mistake

3 Techniques for Software Engineers to Practice Writing So That They Can Improve Their Thinking Ability

What skills will software engineers need when AI does all the coding? Here's my opinion after 10 years in tech.

Why Software Engineers Should Not Dismiss AI as a New Tool Today

My Trading Algorithm Once Made $30k in 30 Seconds But I Still Had to Quit

3 Types of Thinking and Why You Are Still Superior to AI

Don't Learn More Programming Languages: Why Augmented Engineers Only Need Two in 2024

Lead the AI Programmers or Be Replaced

Want To Adapt to AI as a Software Engineer? Here Are The Three Pillars For Becoming an Augmented Engineer