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Fear of Writing

There is this constant struggle within me. I want to write to get better at writing. I want to write to share knowledge and experience that I have learned, but as I learn and grow, I’m worried that I will inevitably write pure crap. Crap that is useless and not worth reading and is instead clogging up the interwebs and adding more noise than signal. I have a problem that as I read through the internet these days, it often needs to be clarified who is an expert and who is pretending to be one. The question is: who do you trust? ...

May 15, 2024 · zacharyc

Changing Transparency to Trust

I posted last week about the values at Gluino. After further talking them over with some friends, we decided to learn as a group and change one of our values (yes, already). The value we are changing is Transparency. We are shifting it to Trust. This post explains why. Transparency is complicated in the business world. As a company grows, it is hard to be transparent about everything. There are also problems that one group needs to worry about while another may not. ...

May 15, 2024 · zacharyc
Mango Tree Coffee

Denver Area Coffee

I just returned from a trip to the Denver/Golden area. I stayed with my former podcast co-host Evan at his pretty rad new house in Golden near North Table. This post briefly summarizes the coffee on my trip, along with some recommendations and thoughts. I’m obsessed with Coffee, so I visited several different coffee places while I was in the area. We also visited several different places throughout the trip. ...

May 2, 2024 · zacharyc
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Introducing Gluino

This week, we introduced Gluino to the world. My friend Sean and I have been working on this project for a bit. It’s officially a company, and we are officially making things happen. In this post, I want to introduce you to the product and company and explain why I’m so excited. Maybe, at the end, I’ll even explain the name. The Product Gluino is an AI product, like so many other technologies that are being released right now. It uses LLM technology to answer text-based questions. There are a lot of products out there doing this, but Gluino is different. Our goal is to provide better results for your questions than the other products by giving enhanced context to the LLM. ...

April 26, 2024 · zacharyc

Potential Is Dangerous

In coaching cheerleading, I like to say that potential at the beginning of the year is a great thing, but potential at the end of the year is not. Potential is a dangerous word, but society sees it as a positive. This post is about how dangerous that is and why using this word can have unintended consequences. I just picked up a copy of How to ADHD, and I haven’t even finished the first chapter. The author talks about potential. (As if I needed a clue that I have ADHD, I’ve already put the book aside to write this blog post.) She talks about how people kept on telling her she had so much potential. ...

April 24, 2024 · zacharyc