learnings
AI-assembled learning plans on niche topics — history, engineering, design, and wherever curiosity leads next. Each plan is built by a hand-crafted agentic pipeline: claims researched against sources, modules sequenced for how people actually learn. The curation and the questions are mine.
Latest plans
See all 36 →Operational Excellence for Engineering Managers
A practical guide for engineering managers building operational excellence on their own team — reliability, SLOs, on-call, incident response, and bug management — while aligning to a standard practice shared across teams. Covers the technical mechanics, the safety and learning culture underneath them, and how to win buy-in from PMs and the wider org.
Structuring Efficient Tech Orgs
A practical, science-backed course for engineering org-design leaders on maximising efficiency while minimising cognitive load and burnout — covering sociotechnical systems, team topologies, cognitive load on teams, bounded rationality, psychological safety, hiring and team composition, career ladders, compensation, DEI, goals and strategy deployment, async writing and meeting design, sustainable pace and on-call, and org failure and change.
Living a Good Life
A 13-module synthesis of virtue ethics, Stoicism, Buddhism, contemplative practice, self-knowledge, narrative identity, flow, relationships, generativity, rest, awe, and life design — grounded in empirical wellbeing research and ancient practical philosophy.
The Unwritten History
How human history is preserved and transmitted outside of written texts — oral tradition, mnemonic objects, landscape, body, ancient DNA, and memory technology — and how scholars actually recover and verify it.
Considering a Tattoo
An 8-module path through the deep history, living indigenous traditions, magic and symbolism, body science, and decision architecture of tattooing — for someone weighing a new mark.
Building Resilient Systems
A 13-module learning plan for tech leads and staff engineers — from distributed systems failure modes through spatial and temporal isolation patterns, graceful degradation, fail-safe design (with train, aviation, and nuclear cases), high-reliability organizations, resilience engineering and Safety-II, chaos engineering, incident response, change safety, on-call cognitive load, and a capstone on resilience tradeoffs and judgment.