Founder and CEO of @PanditaIo. The platform to put education and technology in the hands of everyone.

UK
Joined May 2007
When was the last time you sat through a safety briefing that you really listened to? How much of your training is just a safety briefing in disguise? pandita.io/blog/2023/04/05/s…
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What can the New Coke fiasco of the 80s tell us about personality tests? pandita.io/blog/2023/04/03/p…
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Any sort of reasonable language requires a module system: a way to use other people's code, including your own. pandita.io/blog/2023/03/31/v…
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Great thoughtleadership is education. Are you thinking about your writing as marketing and teaching? pandita.io/blog/2023/03/29/t…
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Technology can offer us more. But that's not a technology problem: it's a motivation problem. This is at the heart of Pandita's mission. pandita.io/blog/2023/03/27/t…
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More on implementing a VM. Assignment is an interesting special case. How do you handle an expression that doesn’t entirely evaluate like an expression? pandita.io/blog/2023/03/24/v…
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I’ve been blogging again, and I’ve been enjoying being it again. pandita.io/blog/2023/03/22/b…
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Lay-offs suck. But what can you do after the axe has swung? Learn. pandita.io/blog/2023/03/20/l…
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The next post in the story of implementing a virtual machine for a custom language. Today: quick thoughts on parsing and representing syntax trees. pandita.io/blog/2023/03/17/v…
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On the Pandita blog today. We’ve all taken surveys, but how much knowledge depends on them? And how good are they, actually?
Evidence matters. We’re on the hunt for good evidence. How good are surveys? pandita.io/blog/2023/03/15/a…
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There's a surprising amount of tech behind @PanditaIo, including its own language. I've started writing about building this. pandita.io/blog/2023/03/13/w…
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Hey @daveg, does this sound familiar? Has Melon Husk really only ever had one idea? platformer.news/p/inside-the…
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The lettuce wins!
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Hey everyone, I just got one of those growth hacker notifications from an app and… it was actually useful! 🍾
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for the last 20 years, I've hated talking about 9/11. it's horrible memories of the smell of ash and not knowing where my dad was. but now I live with this curious little boy who chirps things like "why did grandpa's plane fall down?" over pancakes and it's remarkably healing
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Parklife!
There is a beauty to the biological substrate
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This has been on my mind. VC types, how do I ask if your money is dirty?
I wonder just how many VC “limited partners” are Russian oligarchs. Now you’re wondering, too.
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This is a serious question. As a founder, in conversations with VCs about investment, what can I reasonably expect VCs to reveal about the source of their capital?
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Apropos that thread, are float and double the original sins of premature optimisation? How much better would software be if we all used arbitrary precision by default, and had to opt in to floating point when we needed speed?
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