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The Pokemon Reinforcement Problem!

Pixels Are Not Enough — 15 Million Steps of Pokémon Red Field Notes · Reinforcement Learning I spent fifteen million training steps teaching an…

Jul 13, 2026 · 14 min read
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MDPs Through Lemon Trees!

Somewhere between a coin flip and a chess game sits the kind of decision economics actually cares about: one made today, under…

Jul 12, 2026 · 13 min read
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The Bifurcated Startup

Startup culture in 2026 doesn’t look like what the mythology promised. The hoodies and ping pong tables gave way to spreadsheets and…

Feb 26, 2026 · 11 min read
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The Power of Listening

The Power of Listening (A Leadership Commentary) We’ve all heard of EQ. In today’s world, success is no longer about who can…

Jan 20, 2026 · 5 min read
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Anxiety’s Implicit Hand on Us!

Anxiety is pretty annoying. Sometimes it’s scary, sometimes it’s just exhausting and sometimes it’s just there. Here’s the thing about anxiety: it…

Jan 6, 2026 · 5 min read