Frederick's delirious rants
The delirious rantings of Frederick Vanbrabant. A blog focused on the intersection of Enterprise Architecture, product, and business strategy.
From personalsit.es
Discover
Wander the web like a shoreline.
Something new washes up every time: pages from all kinds of people, made with all kinds of tools. Beachcomb shows you what it found, then gets out of the way.
Pick a few topics
TidyTuesday 2026/43
This week’s data joins starting salaries for 285 college majors with the AI Occupational Exposure index of Felten, Raj and Seamans. The index scores how much the abilities an occupation needs overlap with what AI can do. Each major gets the average score of the occupations its graduates tend to…
From Kagi Small Web
A proof-of-concept formalization of the IRS federal tax forms
US federal income tax forms and instructions as cited, executable, machine-checkable data. - emmilco/us-tax-model
Something different
OpenTaxRate – open-source US sales tax rates by street address
US sales tax rates by street address, from the states' own published data. - equated-org/opentaxrate
From Show HN
Uruguay Residency Is Zero Tax for One Kind of Person
A friend from Brazil told me Uruguay residency is very interesting, especially for nomads. Zero tax, he said, plus access to South America’s EU-style free-movement agreements. I checked both claims against the law as it stands in October 2026. Uruguay is a good option for one profile: someone living…
Something different
Convoy – Easiest way to get paid for sharing your knowledge
Run your sessions, bookings, payments and follow-ups from one link, and keep everyone who comes.
From Show HN
Checking In
Before leaving for China, I looked at the numbers from both of my apps and decided to stop trying to sell them. RollScrub is going open source. Pura Letra stays, but I’m done trying to make money from it.
From Kagi Small Web
HissingKitty – what teams pay for software and what replaced it
What teams really pay for Salesforce, HubSpot and Microsoft, why they leave, and the AI-native tools and custom builders replacing them. Free and independent.
Something different
Sick of AI ads, a roofer hand-drew his own and was accused of being AI
How Anton from Southland Roof Repairs went viral for a terrible AI ad... that was never AI.
From Waxy.org links
Persistence Is a Numbers Game: 150 Startups, One Collapse, and the One That Worked
In The Founder, Ray Kroc lives by a famous line: nothing can take the place of persistence. I co-founded a startup studio that built more than 150 startups, and watched it collapse under its own weight. The research says persistence alone barely moves your odds. My experience says it is the only…
From Kagi Small Web
Chuck Reynolds
Chuck Reynolds works with founders, engineering leads, and go-to-market teams on products end to end: how they're built, how teams ship them, and how real people use them. Systems and process, AI enablement for teams, growth and go-to-market. Fractional and project work.
Something different
To Build A Better Ballot
an interactive guide to alternative voting systems
From Explorable Explanations
Pyramid of the Capitalist System (1911)
The working class undergirds everything in this cartoon of capitalist society.
From The Public Domain Review
Jim Jeffers
Writing by Jim Jeffers on leadership, coding, business, software, and practical outcomes in the age of AI.
Something different
Jarema
This site is the personal playground and digital garden for Jarema. I write some blog posts, sometimes content about economics, coding, and occasionally I post some cats too.
Something different
Samuel East writes about getting laid off from Plex, only 60 days in
I've just been laid off from Plex, roughly 60 days after starting, having already been made redundant from 3SS earlier this year. Some honest thoughts on AI-driven workflows, hire fast fire fast, and how we're treating the people who build the software.
From Waxy.org links
Reddit Stock Chatter Is Best Shorted
A 100-day field report on 717,205 Reddit mentions, 236 price-matched spikes, and 2,001 LLM replays against hindsight and simple baselines.
Something different
How Government Expenditures Finance Themselves ?
A macroeconomic model from Wynne Godley and Marc Lavoie.
From Awesome Explorables
I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles
S&P 500 companies as bubbles sized by market cap, filled with one stick figure per 10,000 employees.
Something different
Social Security Retirement Benefits, Explained Visually
From Explorable Explanations
The Kelly criterion: How to size bets
From Explorable Explanations
Software Hate Index (real-time ranking of SaaS complaints)
The Software Hate Index: the software buyers hate most right now, priced live from real reviews, bills and price increases. No bets.
Something different
That's this stretch.
Walk on