A working bullshit detector — drawing on Harry Frankfurt's On Bullshit and Nassim Taleb's skin-in-the-game — with concrete heuristics for spotting it in pitches, forecasts, and internal arguments, plus why the absence of a detector is an expensive blind spot.
People will burn out when having too much pressure. A truly restful break can help them to recover willpower and the power of attention. To take truly restful breaks, you need to fully switch off, take short breaks early and often and get out of the office.
I'm Tian Pan, an engineer-founder focused on agentic engineering — building autonomous AI systems and scaling engineering teams. I write practical guides on system design, technical leadership, and shipping with AI agents. Previously an early engineer at Uber, Brex, and IoTeX.
