Oddly enough, this story begins with Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher. The father of modern science, who created a precursor to the scientific method. A man whose contributions to mathematics continue to be built on today, whose ideas about economics and politics touched every subsequent society. …

The Problem There are as many possible games of Solitaire as there are permutations of a deck of cards. That’s something like 8 * 10⁶⁷ possible games, or 8 followed by 67 zeros. It’s an impossibly large number — seeing it written out is absurd: 80000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 If you shuffle a deck of…

Software engineers were on top of the world 2 years ago. What went wrong? If you’re a software engineer, you know as well as I do that things are a lot different now than they were two years ago. …

The Problem If you do a lot of frontend development, you have probably built a website or an app that interacts with an API. Interacting with APIs is a big part of frontend development. You might be retrieving information from an API and displaying it on a webpage. …

I asked ChatGPT some questions about its role in the future of work. me: What role will you play in the future of work? ChatGPT: As a language model, my primary role will continue to be assisting with language-related tasks. This could include answering questions, generating text, and translating languages…

An anti-pattern in business What is the Peter Principle? If you follow me, you know I normally write about software engineering. You’ll find a lot of the discourse concerning the peter principle is related to software engineering, but the peter principle isn’t exclusive to software engineering. …

Attempting to apply the scientific method to self-improvement I recently came across a post on reddit that inspired me to re-think how I improve myself and increase my quality of life. u/HeroJournal and their girlfriend tracked how different video games impacted their mood over the course of a year:

A simple brain teaser that stumped one of history’s most prolific mathematicians. The Monty Hall problem is a probability puzzle based on the American television show Let’s Make a Deal. …

What questions should you ask at the end of an interview? In standard interviews, the last 5–15 minutes are typically given to the candidate as an opportunity to ask the interviewer questions. …