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May 2026

12-05-2026
Position or Perish: The Narrative Blueprint

Position or Perish: The Narrative Blueprint

Source: joanwestenberg.com

Avis was losing $3.2 million a year; and they'd been unprofitable for thirteen straight. 

In 1962, they sat at number two in American car rental, well behind Hertz, with no plausible path to catching up. Robert Townsend, the new president, hired Doyle Dane Bernbach and asked them to do

Linked is an excellent article about “positioning”. What it is, why it’s crucial, how to do it.

April 2026

23-04-2026
Higher education’s AI denial is not academic integrity--it’s institutional negligence

Higher education’s AI denial is not academic integrity--it’s institutional negligence

Source: ecampusnews.com

In higher education, AI should be a human-centered tool inside a curriculum that expects more from students, not less.

Linked is a great article about how higher ed (and maybe all ed) has to incorporate AI fully into teaching and not try to pretend it doesn't exist.

21-04-2026
JuliusBrussee/caveman: 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman

JuliusBrussee/caveman: 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman

Source: github.com

🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman - JuliusBrussee/caveman

Linked is a tool that claims to save lots of $$ using Claude Code. I am a big user of Claude Code so, this is worth a lot -- if it really works!

15-04-2026
A brief history of C/C++ programming languages

A brief history of C/C++ programming languages

Source: lemire.me

Initially, we had languages like Fortran (1957), Pascal (1970), and C (1972). Fortran was designed for number crunching and scientific computing. Pascal was restrictive with respect to low-level access (it was deliberately "safe", as meant for teaching structured programming). So C won out as a language that allowed low-level/unsafe programming (pointer arithmetic, direct memory access) … Continue reading A brief history of C/C++ programming languages

Linked is a handy little trip down memory lane. Kind of an evolutionary tree of programming languages over the last 30 years.

March 2026

10-03-2026
How to win a best paper award (or, an opinionated take on how to do important research)

How to win a best paper award (or, an opinionated take on how to do important research)

Source: nicholas.carlini.com

An opinionated perspective on how to do important research that makes a difference (and sometimes win awards).

Linked is a tour-de-force article about doing good research and writing impactful papers. It’s not something I’ve done (successfully) so I can’t vouch for it. But the article is well written and engaging and contains many life lessons beyond writing great research papers.