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When Corporations Became Too Big
Published: at 07:15 PMScale solved coordination problems. But beyond a certain point, scale creates new ones. This is the problem of diseconomies.
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The Rise of the Managerial Corporation
Published: at 06:30 PMCorporations did not just reduce transaction costs. In the 20th century, they became the dominant social institution — reshaping work, identity, and the middle class.
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Why Corporations Exist
Published: at 10:00 AMCorporations did not emerge by accident. They are coordination machines. In 2026, as transaction costs fall, we revisit why they exist — and what might be changing.
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Metrics Are Projection
Published: at 10:00 AMMetrics don't measure reality — they project it. As systems become more autonomous, projection design matters more than model intelligence.
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Agent Experimentation and Innovation at the Edge
Published: at 10:00 AMExecution, collaboration, and ecosystems: three edges where agent innovation is actually happening — and what it means for building durable, human-centered systems.
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An Intuitive Journey Through Statistics & Hypothesis Testing
Published: at 10:00 AMAn Intuitive Journey Through Statistics & Hypothesis Testing in a coffee shop
Recent Posts
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From Process Managers to Stable Agent Workflows
Published: at 10:00 AMAgent workflows feel new, but the stability problems they face are not. Here's how decades of integration architecture apply to building production agent systems.
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Keeping State Consistent: Database Transactions in LangGraph Workflows
Published: at 06:00 PMThree patterns for keeping LangGraph workflow state and database state synchronized - idempotent tasks, read-before-write synchronization, and the transactional outbox pattern.
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Maths-as-Code for Machine Learning
Published: at 12:00 AMTranslate the maths you see in ML papers into code you can write. A compact cheat sheet mapping notation → intuition → Python/NumPy (and JS).
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Agents, Routing, Patterns, and Actors
Published: at 11:00 AMBuilding Agent Networks that Don't Collapse Under Their Own Cleverness