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779 blog posts. Writing about engineering, startups, math, and AI.

Many of the posts have rich discussions on HN. You can see the top ones here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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* Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming (421 points) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28086836

* Don't Use Kubernetes Yet (306 points) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31795160

* Google search's death by a thousand cuts (292 points) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36564042

* The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles (256 points) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32438616

* I Miss the Programmable Web (248 points) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32284375

* What Comes After Git? (227 points) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31984450

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Hi there! I adore your blog. Quick question - you have an MBA from Stanford, and you're a software engineer rather than a 'manager'. Are there others like you? I was thinking of an MBA as an option, but was afraid my focus after that might not be technical enough.

Thank you! I'm waiting to write this post (I follow Patrick Collison's advice methodology -- wait 10 years before you can accurately reflect [0]).

But here's Marc Andreessen thoughts:

> "Seek to be a double/triple/quadruple threat."

He talks about the MBA + Undergrad Engineering combo in this blog post. https://fictivekin.github.io/pmarchive-jekyll/guide_to_caree...

[0] https://patrickcollison.com/advice

> I follow Patrick Collison's advice methodology -- wait 10 years before you can accurately reflect

I wish more people did so. The signal to noise ratio of the content on the internet would improve a whole lot.

Thanks you for the link! Is it cool if I email you with further questions?

Yep -- matt (at) matt-rickard.com

"Quite a few people in business have paired a liberal arts undergrad degree with an MBA. They seem to do just fine. But I think that’s a missed opportunity—much better would be an MBA on top of an engineering or math undergraduate degree. People with that combination are invaluable, and there aren’t nearly enough of them running around."

I needed to read that today, (Purdue computer eng + Harvard MBA here)

Love your blog posts! You wrote new blog posts daily, at what time during the day you dedicated for writing, and how long on average for each session?

Hi Matt! I really liked the format/layout/style of your blog. Could you share what you’ve used to build it?

Thanks for posting - I'd been looking for your site after forgetting what it was!

I love your blog. I have been following your posts for about last two years

Thank you!

Could i ask how to make such Email list ?

It used to be self-hosted, but I recently moved the list to Substack to make it easier for readers if they have an existing Substack account.

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