Equity and Entropy

Don't shoehorn a human into it

In Dutch, a shoehorn is called a schoenlepel (a shoe spoon).

Aug 17 • Job van der Voort

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July 2026

How to create some simple agent loops

Burn those tokens!

Jul 31 • Job van der Voort

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Abandon all process

The world is full of process.

Jul 16 • Job van der Voort

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How to easily be better than 95% of people at work

You can be in the top 5% of workers by just:

Jul 14 • Job van der Voort

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June 2026

doing things very poorly

So I haven’t written one of these posts for quite a while.

Jun 3 • Job van der Voort

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April 2026

It's finally possible!

Apr 23 • Job van der Voort

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Great communicators win (AI)

A skill that is somewhat hard to quantify, but I found to be incredibly important in work and really sets apart good from great colleagues is the…

Apr 17 • Job van der Voort

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I massively overengineered a button

See the video!

Apr 7 • Job van der Voort

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Agents talking to agents

My agent submits a new feature for review.

Apr 3 • Job van der Voort

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March 2026

We're at the inflection point

For programming AI models

Mar 27 • Job van der Voort

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No longer having to prove that you're in need of help

In almost any, or dare I say, every single country on the planet that pays out some form of subsidies to people for various reasons, an incredible…

Mar 19 • Job van der Voort

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Software just for me

An interesting thing that is happening with AI is that as the cost of software is going down, we can create very different kinds of software.

Mar 16 • Job van der Voort

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