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Long-form opinions, delivered with the confidence of someone who has been wrong before and will be again.
2026
2026-07-06 · 5 min of your life · seo, identity, chess, internetI Lost My Name to a Three-Year-OldI used to rank first on Google for my own name. Then a three-year-old learned chess. This is the counter-campaign.2026-07-06 · 4 min of your life · football, fifa, world-cupFIFA Discovers the Presidential Review SystemVAR was never the problem. Football simply needed a direct line to the President of the United States.2026-07-05 · 5 min of your life · football, germanyThe Future of German Football ArrivedI have supported Germany for sixteen years. Every four years, I become a slightly older man and Germany finds a slightly newer way to ruin my summer.2026-07-04 · 3 min of your life · family, marriage, accountabilityCo-DependentMarriage is about becoming a better person together. Apparently.2026-06-30 · 3 min of your life · infrastructure, opinionsYour startup does not need KubernetesA love letter to the three users you have and the container orchestra you hired for them. Featuring autoscaling, YAML, and other ways to avoid finding product-market fit.2026-06-23 · 2 min of your life · politics, family, internet, fearThreat ModelI had a joke about Indian politics. My parents live in India, so unfortunately it remains in drafts.