I’m Kyle. I’m an Site Reliability Engineer-type person at a big tech co. Given my background, I tend to focus on tech/tech adjacent things, and my experiences.
I write mainly for myself - I’ve found that having my thoughts laid out gives me enough mental space to refine my ideas. Offloading to external storage, if you will.
Sometimes I write notes for things I find interesting. Expect such notes to be less polished, I tend to focus on areas I had problems with instead of the larger picture.
Teaching is not a general goal right now. My compulsion to reference everything has been a blocker to sustained writing in the past.
The name comes from Gehm’s corollary to Clarke’s 3rd law, and a rebuttal:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Clarke’s Third Law
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. - Gehm’s corollary
Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don’t understand it. - Freefall
I do have a day job, and any views here are my own, not any of my employers - past, present, or future.
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