Ian Reppel: Jobs, Salaries & Tech Stack (2026)

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Ian Reppel. Off the coast of Dominica, the Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) is feeding thousands of sperm whale codas into the same kind of large language models (LLMs) that power human chatbots.

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News Ian Reppel 3 months ago

How Successful Companies Go Blind

The Mexican cavefish kept its eye genes for over a million years after the eyes themselves disappeared. Something similar happens to companies once they achieve success.

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News Ian Reppel 3 months ago

The Emperor

Imitation has become the sincerest form of strategy.

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News Ian Reppel 6 months ago

1,350 Days with Logseq

I liked Logseq for almost four years, but SQLite over plain Markdown ruined it.

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News Ian Reppel 7 months ago

The AI Benchmark Trap

What does benchmark supremacy have to do with operational reliability?

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News Ian Reppel 8 months ago

PMF: Product/Market Folklore

Ask a product manager about PMF and they will almost certainly rattle off the Sean Ellis test with its 40% threshold. What few realize is that it's mostly rubbish.

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News Ian Reppel 9 months ago

Ralph Wiggum as a Degenerate Evolutionary Search

Ralph Wiggum works because it is a degenerate evolutionary search algorithm.

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News Ian Reppel 1 year ago

From Steam to Silicon: Patterns of Technological Revolutions

From agriculture to AI, each major economic revolution is driven by a new kind of value conversion: a way of transforming one type of value into another.

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News Ian Reppel 1 year ago

What They Definitely Don

Leadership courses celebrate vision, empowerment, and charisma. Yet history, psychology, and neuroscience paint a far less flattering picture. Power seduces, corrupts, and destroys.