A tour inside my software restaurant
Rebuilding a defunct autobattler with coding agents—and discovering that most of the early users were bots.
Read essayField notes on systems, people & small bets
Nick Huber
Builder · data scientist · investor
“Often, I don’t know what I really think until I write it down.”
The personal notebook of
Ideas worth keeping.
I make AI products, study data, and make small-check investments. This is where I work through durable ideas, practical lessons, and the occasional attempt to understand myself.
Quantified Self, a Decade in Review
A decade of personal telemetry, and why AI may finally make the quantified-self idea useful.
Read essayData analysis is a form of software engineering
Why analytics is a branch of software engineering, told through the mistakes that made the lesson stick.
Read essayGame theory, asymmetric opportunities, and how I lost $40 million
Incentives, upside, and a ledger of missed chances—including the very expensive ones.
Read essayWorking from home, 2020-2021: A year in review
What a year at home changed about focus, family, management, and the shape of a productive day.
Read essay15 Ways I’m Unique
A deliberately unedited inventory of the traits, contradictions, and routines that make me myself.
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Index
All writing
Essays on building, data, decisions, and self-knowledge.
- 01 A tour inside my software restaurant Build log
- 02 Quantified Self, a Decade in Review Data
- 03 Data analysis is a form of software engineering Practice
- 04 Game theory, asymmetric opportunities, and how I lost $40 million Decisions
- 05 Working from home, 2020-2021: A year in review Work
- 06 15 Ways I’m Unique Personal