Progress Worth Making.

With all the hype around AI, I was thinking it is a good time to actually build something simple, that will explain the basic principles of AI systems and LLMs. There are so many notions out there, so many new things, and technology is advancing so rapidly that even senior engineers have a rough time staying up to date. In order to make this as simple as possible, I will begin with the simplest example of how to integrate an AI API into...

If you’ve ever been in a meeting where someone casually said “we just need to add RAG,” and you nodded while secretly searching what that meant under the table, this post is for you. The AI space moves so fast that even experienced developers can suddenly feel surrounded by unfamiliar buzzwords overnight. Terms like temperature, tokens, context window, embeddings, fine-tuning, and RAG get thrown around constantly, often without mu...

I’ve been quiet on this blog for about three years. When I last wrote here regularly, I was a technical project manager, reading every leadership book I could find, like John Maxwell’s, Ego Is the Enemy or Peopleware trying to figure out how to help my team, how to become someone worth following. It was a good season. Focused. Clear. I knew I needed to become a better tech lead, a better project manager. I was focused at wor...

This book is aimed at a wide range of professionals, including company leaders, managers, and human resource experts who play a critical role in shaping the culture and dynamics of their teams and organisations. Daniel Coyle gives us an important lesson in leadership and management: quite often, the team dynamics inspired by the leader are more important than the individuals comprising the team. The author delves into the specific actio...

The reason why leadership became such an important subject these days is due to the fact that people realize the following: when you become a leader, your hole life changes. Everything goes up and down with leadership and the world becomes a better place when people become better leaders. Your development as a leader has the power to change everything about you: you will become more effective, your weak points will improve, and your imp...

Progress Rating: 3/5
Category: People Management (General advice)
Why leaders should read it: It describes simple but powerful techniques that can be used to keep your team motivated while also obtaining the results you need, all without spending too much time. A short must-read lecture for new managers....