The Logs

I like the keyboard and so do you

AI is taking us back to an interface that is all too familiar to the investment banker archetype: the command line. First thing you're taught as a first-year analyst is to lose your dependency on th

Create your own contextual newsfeed

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. That’s especi

A search engine for official websites

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. Each entry

Reshuffling the deck

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. Y

The cost of delusion

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. But Legos come with a set number of pieces in a bag

I Created a Knowledge Base

‘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”. There are some things technology can’t do — for t

OK Computer! Your Pick

When chatgpt debuted two years ago, it demonstrated a clear departure from an ecosystem of assistants and chatbots that came before it. For the first time, we could envision a world of any input to an

I built a website

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. A website is just a bunch of HTML and CSS code that a web