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The Concept of Base Rates I recently came across an interesting concept called the “outside view” while watching a lecture by Michael Mauboussin, a finance professor at Columbia Business School. He talked about the idea of base rates, which is particularly relevant in the context of financial investments. When researching a company, many smart people try to create their own model. For example, they might look at a company like Adidas and develop a discounted cash flow model. Based on their analysis, they might predict that the company’s market cap will double in 3-5 years. ...

It frustrates me to no end that some engineers in this industry refuse to take a side in technical discussions or debates—especially those in higher ranks or positions of authority. Have some bloody courage, take a side, and be accountable. It’s okay to make mistakes. It’s okay to be wrong. But it’s not okay to hold others back from making progress because you’re too afraid of being wrong or too hesitant to accept responsibility. ...

Ever since I watched Fight Club during COVID, I’ve been fascinated by its raw yet straightforward message. It struck a chord with me. The ideas in Fight Club weren’t entirely new to me. Coming from a third-world country and learning English as a second language, I’d always sensed these principles but could never quite articulate them as the film does. Re-watching it reminded me of these values: the “Fight Club” values. ...

There is a few bit of articles around how to run playwright with puppetter online but there is no content out there on how to run Playwright-Go specifically in AWS Lambda. This is a guide on how to do it. At least how I’ve done it anyway. I was originally using SST.dev as an IAC for my lambda deployments. However, annoyingly enough they don’t support container image as lambda functions. So I am currently doing it manually however I am contemplating to move to AWS CDK because of this. ...

Hi world and my blog that I left in the dust for years. Today is the year 2024, I’ve been on hiatus on this blog and AI is taking over the world. Just wanted to add some kind of a new year resolution, writing this just after Lunar New Year of course. By the end of the year, I should: have 10 books read make at least 1 commit every single day exercise for at least 30 mins a day have finish at least one of my side projects not be shy of writing blogs/thoughts contribute to one useful open source repo