Four Years of Past Year Reviews: What I Actually Learned
Four years of Past Year Review data revealed which decisions compound and which drain energy. The data changed how I make career decisions.
Systems & ProductivityWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
The 15x Cost of a Bad Database Decision: Lessons in Decision Timing
I measured the cost of a database decision across three systems. The migration cost grew 15x over three years. A framework for when to decide fast vs. slow.
Systems & ProductivityMental Compound Interest: How Cross-Domain Knowledge Built My Best Tools
Design + engineering + AI produced tools none of those skills alone could build. An interactive calculator and the cross-domain advantage in practice.
Systems & ProductivityExternal Publications
Technical writing at Introl
Local LLM Hardware Pricing Guide 2025
Comprehensive hardware recommendations and cost analysis for running large language models locally.
H100 vs. H200 vs. B200: Choosing the Right NVIDIA GPUs for Your AI Workload
GPU selection guide comparing NVIDIA's latest datacenter accelerators for different AI workloads.
TPU Architecture: Complete Guide to Google's 7 Generations
Deep technical dive into Google's Tensor Processing Unit evolution from TPUv1 to TPUv5.
GPU Memory Pooling in Multi-Tenant Kubernetes
Resource sharing strategies for GPU clusters in containerized environments.
Ray Clusters: Distributed AI Computing Infrastructure
Guide to building and managing distributed AI computing with Ray framework.
DeepSeek V3 Open Source AI Cost Advantage
Analysis of open source LLM economics and DeepSeek's competitive positioning.
NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPU 600kW Racks 2027
Future datacenter power requirements and NVIDIA's next-generation GPU roadmap.
SMR Nuclear Power for AI Data Centers
Small modular reactor solutions for powering next-generation AI infrastructure.
DeepSeek MHC Architecture Breakthrough
Technical analysis of DeepSeek's Multi-Head Compression architecture innovations.