LLMs and How You Spend Your Time
A 20-minute 'yes and' phone call replaced hours of writing a vision document — and was actually fun. LLMs are worth a few days of thinking about how you spend your time."
~/writing
Musings, mostly
written at night.
Ryan Rusnak on software, logistics, and whatever else comes to mind.
2026
07 posts
7CTOs - Combining Software Engineering and Data Science
A talk I gave before LLMs, COVID, and my second kid — back when recurrent neural nets were the exciting thing.
The Sound of Root Two
The math behind why some notes sound good together and others don't — clean integer ratios versus the irrational number our ears hate most.
You need three things to start a company
Everyone in the bar had the best idea. Ideas are the easy part — you also need expertise and data.
Why Airspace
In 2015 I wanted two things from my work: something meaningful and something super hard. Then I met Nick.
The Southwest Airlines Story
From a TI-82 in middle school to the day our ops team turned a plane around to save a kid in Baltimore.
The Kidney Story
A stranger called to ask if I had delivered a kidney to his friend. I had no idea — and that is the part that stays with me.
2019
01 posts
The Goal of Writing - 2019
A snapshot from January 2019: a goal to write weekly, no plan to do it, and a lot of youthful optimism.
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