The Logs

AI is taking us back to an interface that is all too familiar to the investment banker archetype: the command line.

There are days when you’re staring at your Bloomberg Terminal’s screen, refreshing your inbox, or constantly pulling down on your screen to refresh the newsfeed on your phone.

Private markets are slow going, you’re not inundated with an onslaught of disclosures, earnings season is not something you lose sleep over, and stock price movements do not concern you.

If you ever decide to join the suit-wearers, the bankers, the number crunchers, the financial modelers, and the night owls pulling all-nighters, you’ll need to make nice with company disclosures.

I’m building a knowledge base from scratch. I’ve done that before, but this time there are a few curveballs. A knowledge base can be a collection of books, documents, or files of any kind.

You’re a finance graduate, fresh out of school and you get hired by one of the big finance shops; an investment bank, less so a private equity firm, and recently more likely, a venture capital firm.

When building software, there are many pieces that you need to assemble for your product to function. Like Lego pieces, you put the pieces together.

‘Producing a good index “is a job of deep reading, of working to understand a text in order to make the most judicious selection of its key elements”.

When chatgpt debuted two years ago, it demonstrated a clear departure from an ecosystem of assistants and chatbots that came before it.

Ostensibly a statement that means little at a time when building websites has become commoditized, but it does hold a lot of meaning for me.