The following is an excerpt from my journal. I did intern at Microsoft, but this in no way reflects the true beliefs of Microsoft or the Xbox organization. They are my reflections on publicly available knowledge regarding Xbox, Game Pass, and xCloud. I believe in Microsoft’s mission statement for gaming…

Life Lessons Don’t operate based on how you think the world should be or people should act. Operate based on how the world currently works and how people currently act. …

I interned on the Core Infrastructure team at DoorDash this past summer. I saved storage infrastructure engineers roughly 10 hours per month and mitigated significant risk by automating the process of deploying, changing identity and access management, checking private subnet status, and testing connection poolers with Jenkins pipelines. Connection poolers…

I’m most interested in Anduril and YugabyteDB. Technology has spurred globalization at unprecedented rates. The economic gap and cultural differences between developed and undeveloped countries has widened, and the level of competition between world powers has only increased. Furthermore, weapons technology reached new heights in the last century. Atomic and…

Predictions I’m predicting that there will be outrage about the disparity in access to COVID-19 tests after the pandemic is over, unless it becomes taboo to talk about the situation. Talking about the pandemic will be taboo to some extent after it’s over. The media barely touched on unemployment. Blue collar…

The Common Knowledge Game Coined by Ben Hunt, the Common Knowledge Game traces how knowledge leads to group action. There’s three types of knowledge: private knowledge, public knowledge, and common knowledge. When just you and a few others know X, it’s private knowledge. When everybody knows X, but doesn’t know that everyone else knows…