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Reinventing the Wheel #1: Personal Finance Software
A fun little side project (inspired by matrimony) that has become my main personal finance tool
Jun 23
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Zach Flynn
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Experiments and Gradient Descent
How to find the best version via iterative experiments via analogy to gradient descent
Jun 19
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Zach Flynn
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Shocking Results Need Mundane Assumptions
The rule for persuasive analyses
Jun 12
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Zach Flynn
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Two Good Things: 2026-06-05
Bathhouses and AI IPOs
Jun 5
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Zach Flynn
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Good Metrics Maximize Surprise
"Let it surprise you."
Jun 3
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Zach Flynn
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Effort Post: Automation, Knowledge Work, Uncertainty, and AI (Part 1)
A production model where LLMs act as pure, effort-saving automation machines (more models upcoming!)
Jun 1
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Zach Flynn
1
May 2026
Stories from the SaaS Wars: 2026-05-23
Some stories I found interesting this week, mostly focused on the SaaS Wars.
May 23
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Zach Flynn
Domain Specific Languages for Statistical Modeling
I'd like a STAN for moment-based models
May 21
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Zach Flynn
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Prediction Markets and the Social Value of Information
There's appeal, but I don't think I like them very much
May 19
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Zach Flynn
Round-up!: Thinking Machines are Expensive Now?
Stories from the Pricing, Monetization, and Data Science world from the past week (2026-05-15)
May 15
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Zach Flynn
Estimating Demand via Experiments (when They won't let you randomize price...)
A more customer-friendly way to experiment on price
May 13
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Zach Flynn
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Surveys, Data, and Vibes
It's okay to ask people what they want and believe them
May 11
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Zach Flynn
1
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