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Pinned memos

How to manufacture credibility without lying; three techniques to turn zero track record into six-figure trust.

consulting navigate sales social-proof

How knowledge work organizes itself

How societies naturally organize around different types of knowledge work; from those who apply compressed rules to those who derive new principles from scratch.

AI cognitive-labor compression-fidelity knowledge-work societal-organization

The five stages of learning

How human cognition and artificial intelligence both develop increasingly abstract representations, from simple stimulus-response patterns to deep hierarchical understanding.

abstraction-hierarchy AI cognitive-development compression-fidelity deep-learning human-learning

September 2025

Published Social proofSeptember 08

Published 2 memosSeptember 03

How knowledge work organizes itself

The five stages of learning

July 2025

Published Composing the Dwarves video pipelineJuly 10

Published AI-powered consulting sprints for rapid clarityJuly 07

June 2025

Published Forward engineering Jun 2025June 27

Published Engineers in the AI landscape: architects, tinkerers, planners, and the vibersJune 09

Published A protocol for asynchronous shadowingJune 03

Published 2 memosJune 02

Composing the future: an iron-clad analysis of AI agent architecture frameworks

Mapping the path to AGI

May 2025

Published Learning with AIMay 30

Published SkillmaxingMay 29

Published 2 memosMay 27

How to be a good planner

Vetting proven talents

Published Forward engineering May 2025May 23

Published 5 memosMay 13

MCP playbook setup

AI knowledge automation

MCP playbook code flow

MCP playbook documentation

MCP playbook data flow

Published 6 memosMay 08

Data flow in Brainery

Build a brain that never forgets

MCP authorization over SSE

Append-only concept embedding log

MCP Playbook Mastery

Database design and philosophy

Published 2 memosMay 07

Building use-cases

Promoting raw data to insight

April 2025

Published Continual learning DIKW pyramidApril 29

Published Brainery build logApril 23

March 2025

Published 2 memosMarch 27

Securing your remote MCP servers

Tool-level security for remote MCP servers

February 2025

Published Forward engineering Feb 2025February 07

November 2024

Published AI-powered Ruby travel assistantNovember 21

Published 3 memosNovember 14

Project operations copilots

Project reports system: a case study

Published Natural language to database queries: Text-to-MongoDBNovember 13

Published Market report October 2024November 04

October 2024

Published Building a data-driven project reporting system: A lens into modern data engineeringOctober 29

Published #2 Film production lessons for software engineeringOctober 16

Published ☀️ Open sourceOctober 11

Published Market report September 2024October 08

September 2024

Published Office check-in process for earning ICYSeptember 25

Published Forward engineering Sep 2024September 17

Published Journey of thought prompting: Harnessing AI to craft better promptsSeptember 11

Published Record and reward sharing at DwarvesSeptember 05

August 2024

Published Market report August 2024August 29

July 2024

Published Market report July 2024July 26

Published Building a local search engine for our Memo websiteJuly 17

Published Streamlining internal tool development with managed LLMOps: A Dify case studyJuly 12

Published 2 memosJuly 10

How we crafted the OGIF summarizer bot to streamline weekly knowledge-sharing

RAPTOR: Tree-based retrieval for language models

June 2024

Published Market report may 2024June 19

May 2024

Published Market report April 2024May 15

April 2024

Published OGIF office hours #3 - generative AI, tokenomics, and finance talksApril 27

Published OGIF office hours #2: Devbox as the new Docker, security standards, and understanding liquidityApril 26

Published OGIF office hours #1: markdown presentations, research content pipeline, and professional screenshotsApril 25

Published Market report March 2024April 01

March 2024

Published Dwarves network discordMarch 13

Published Market report February 2024March 01

January 2024

Published Market report January 2024January 26

Published 👾 Open bountiesJanuary 05

Published Labs weekly catchup #5January 03

December 2023

Published Market report December 2023December 29

Published Labs weekly catchup #4December 28

Published 2 memosDecember 21

Labs weekly catchup #3

Dwarves Consulting

Published Labs weekly catchup #2December 14

Published 4 memosDecember 11

OGIF - Oh God it's friday

Backend engineer, Go/Elixir/Rust

Published Estimation guidelinesDecember 08

Published Labs weekly catchup #1December 06

November 2023

Published 2 memosNovember 30

Dwarves Research

Forward engineering Nov 2023

Published DuckDB demo and showcaseNovember 23

Published Leveraging Golang and WebRTC for high-performance video streamingNovember 22

Published Forward engineering Oct 2023November 17

September 2023

Published SQL saragable queries and their impact on database performanceSeptember 14

Published Sql and how it relates to disk reads and writesSeptember 06

August 2023

Published Forward engineering Aug 2023August 30

Published Story map for LLMsAugust 09

June 2023

Published Forward engineering Jun 2023June 30

May 2023

Published Forward engineering May 2023May 22

April 2023

Published 2 memosApril 21

Working with langchain document loaders

Workaround with OpenAI's token limit with Langchain

Published Forward engineering Mar 2023April 03

January 2023

Published 2 memosJanuary 19

Forward engineering Dec 2023

Published Forward engineering Nov 2022January 11

Published Summit 2022: Engineering a good timeJanuary 09

October 2022

Published 2 memosOctober 19

September 2022

Published Building a payment platform from scratchSeptember 28

March 2022

Published State, explain, link - An all-purpose writing techniqueMarch 21