Dan Luu

Chat log exhibits from Twitter v. Musk case

Futurist prediction methods and accuracy

In defense of simple architectures

Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?

Misidentifying talent

Cocktail party ideas

A decade of major cache incidents at Twitter

The container throttling problem

Some thoughts on writing

Some latency measurement pitfalls

Major errors on this blog (and their corrections)

Individuals matter

Culture matters

Willingness to look stupid

What to learn

Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity

The value of in-house expertise

Measurement, benchmarking, and data analysis are underrated

Against essential and accidental complexity

How do cars do in out-of-sample crash testing?