Sebastian David Lees
@sebs_tweets
Software Engineer and Technologist @ https://Datablast.com. Host @ https://FatTonys.net.
We seem to have crossed some kind of tipping point with the Fat Tony’s Podcast. We’re now having people regularly reaching out to us to be guests rather than vice versa. Feels nice. ~24,000 downloads on the 16 episodes we’ve released so far 💪
📚 Antilibrary Book of the Week Religion and decline of magic by Thomas Keith
❄️☀️Max Entropy & The Avalanche ❄️☀️author copies are here!! Now you can order 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁 from me instead of (or in addition to) Amazon, Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, Orell Füssli, SolutionInn (??), Audible, Walmart, your local bookstore, or anywhere books are sold
Any challenges you encounter are more convincing to the client when you DON’T use technical language to explain them.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things. - Arthur Schopenhauer
#FatTonysOxford I just wanna to express my heartfelt thanks to @sebs_tweets and @ClemmaPhillips for organizing this wonderful meetup in Oxford. I’m deeply grateful for your dedication, your openness, and the incredible amount of energy you’ve both poured into making this
You can say that again! #FatTonyOxford
I look really happy on that photo... what a nice afternoon that was 🌞
Had the pleasure of hearing @xGeorgeCooper give a talk last weekend. One thing that struck me was his theory that market dynamics resemble the murmuration of birds. I tinkered with it, normalising some options data into 3D space. Very crude model, but you can already see flock…
Time for a book recommendation The Disruption Fallacy is a really excellent read, concise sharp and thoughtful by @grumpyinnovator Definitely one that I think @rorysutherland would enjoy amazon.co.uk/Disruption-Fal…
Chesterton’s Fence Reforms should not be made until the reasons behind the existing state of affairs is understood.
“Tech debt’s just a myth,” says the guy who named the file final_final_fix. #DevHaiku
Spending #InternationalChessDay at #FatTonysOxford got me thinking about what chess doesn't teach us about strategy. open.substack.com/pub/sdoe/p/wha…
@sebs_tweets & his @FatTonysPodcast has attracted people to hang out, share thoughts, laughs, lessons… in different locations. This year it was Oxford :)
Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Absolutely brilliant number plate for a London black cab...
Thus concludes Fat Tony’s Oxford. An enormous thank you once again to all the guests and speakers.
A wonderful day of talks. A huge thank you to @xGeorgeCooper, @Gerald_Ashley, @grumpyinnovator and @RDouady! 💪👍 #FatTonysOxford
@hugowiz You are deeply missed. Compelling conversation with the marvellous @IAmMicMars #FatTonysOxford