
Founder and CEO of @PanditaIo. The platform to put education and technology in the hands of everyone.
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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…
What can the New Coke fiasco of the 80s tell us about personality tests?
pandita.io/blog/2023/04/03/p…
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…
Great thoughtleadership is education. Are you thinking about your writing as marketing and teaching?
pandita.io/blog/2023/03/29/t…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hey @daveg, does this sound familiar? Has Melon Husk really only ever had one idea?
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ALT Extract from the linked article. The quote from Melon Husk “And maybe we pre-populate their account with and say, OK, we’re gonna give you 10 bucks, and you can send it anywhere within Twitter.” is highlighted. Because rumour has it that this is what Husk did back at PayPal and the company way losing billions until a grown-up stepped in, removed him and stopped the idiocy.
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Replying to @jonnyschneider @kitsonk
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









