Blog Posts - Page 19
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The Economics of Famine as Policy
Examine famine as an economic policy outcome — the Irish Famine's relationship to laissez-faire ideology, the Bengal Famine as Amartya Sen's entitlement failure paradigm, what Malthusian ideology contributed to 19th-century famine responses, and what famine history reveals about how economic ideology shapes institutional responses to catastrophic market failures.
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Monthly Retrospective: What April Taught Me About Technology and Productivity
A personal retrospective on April 2026 covering technology experiments, productivity insights, and honest reflections on what worked and what didn't in.
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ChatGPT Codex: Replaying failed tasks with tighter prompts instead of starting over
A field-tested take on replaying failed tasks with tighter prompts instead of starting over with ChatGPT Codex: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
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How Slave Trade Profits Financed Industrialization
Examine the Williams thesis and its descendants — Eric Williams' argument that slave trade profits financed British industrialization, why historians have debated profitability and capital flows, why indirect contributions are more defensible than direct transfer claims, and what the slavery-industrialization connection reveals about tracing causal relationships across historical periods.
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Why Process Matters More Than Technology
Discover why process beats technology every time when building successful software teams. Learn practical frameworks for improving workflows without.
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Claude Code: Running Claude Code headlessly in CI as a structured reviewer
A field-tested take on running Claude Code headlessly in CI as a structured reviewer with Claude Code: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
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The Economics of the Linen Trade
Examine linen as the economic foundation of 18th-century Ireland and Ulster — why linen fit the proto-industrial system, how the Linen Board's quality regulation built commercial reputation, why the Act of Union affected Irish linen differently than wool, and what the industry's mechanization and decline reveals about regional industrial specializations.
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Personal Automation Pipeline: From Idea to Finished System
Master the art of personal automation with this comprehensive guide. Learn how to identify automation opportunities, build reliable systems, and maintain.
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GitHub Copilot: Wiring MCP servers into Copilot to give it domain-specific tools
A field-tested take on wiring MCP servers into Copilot to give it domain-specific tools with GitHub Copilot: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
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How Trade Unions Changed Labor Markets
Examine trade unions as economic institutions — why workers organize given employer monopsony and information asymmetry, the economic effects of unionization on wages and productivity, how union density peaked and declined, and what union history reveals about when workers successfully bargain versus when union power dissipates.
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What Being a 10x Developer Actually Means
Discover what being a 10x developer actually means beyond the myth and controversy. This honest examination reveals how high-impact engineers create.
