Jordan Nafa

I am hiring! There are probably about ~12 people in the world who meet exactly what I'm looking for, so we're open to considering teaching a 13th person to do what I do provided they already have a strong background in Bayesian statistics (non-negotiable) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I appreciate that Claude is great at telling me shit that I already know 😮‍💨, but at least it confirms my strategy is correct

Once again, a subscription service called Democrats+ that, for a modest monthly fee, guarantees you won't be contacted by any Democratic campaign would be a wildly successful fundraising strategy.

I've always thought it was rather fucked up that you could tell someone, "Welcome to the campus, you need to do x and y by date z, and you'll have a relatively stable job for the rest of your life, provided you never fuck your students," and an alarming number will still proceed to fuck a student 🤦‍♂️

This is one thing America has indisputably done better than the rest of the world (looking at you, Europe) over the last ~25 years. When I was a kid, restaurants still had smoking and non-smoking sections. Today, the idea of someone smoking inside a building is offensive to most people.

In 2026 if you smoke a cigarette in a public place you’re an asshole and I love that for us.

Saw someone on LinkedIn today say all the "mildly autistic" people are going to leave tech because AI handles the tedious minutiae now, and the real work is system design 🤦‍♂️ Like, 8/10 of the competent software/systems architects I've ever known were definitely somewhere on the spectrum.

My wife's grooming table is weirdly reminiscent of a medieval torture device

Simulated test data we're running through the system, but proof that it works and that my ggdist to plotly port functions correctly 😎

Spent the day building a Python Shiny application for a health and performance monitoring interface for the new system, and I have been painfully reminded that front-end development is such a pain in the ass

Some jokes are so good my first reaction isn't even to laugh. It's jealousy that I didn't think of the joke, first.

Yeah, I think this is a pretty solid career goal

New air purifiers disagree with my wife cooking in the kitchen 😅

for the avoidance of doubt, I would like to denounce graphs without clearly labelled axes

No one outside of the SF Bay Area thinks or talks like this, and it's because those people live in a toxic bubble that constantly reinforces their own insanity. It's hard to reach any conclusion beyond the fact that nothing anyone who lives and works in SF Tech says should be taken seriously 🤷‍♂️

My controversial Fall take is that pumpkin spice is fucking disgusting

If I were building a company I would simply try harder to not build a product that results in the company being the defendant in multiple wrongful death lawsuits involving children

I'm not racist, but Bayesian statistics is clearly the superior approach to estimation

Welp, I've canceled my return flight and called the whole thing off because they decided they didn't want to pay cash for a Marriott or Holiday Inn for 3 nights until they could book a room using points 🤷‍♂️

I'm helping my mother move from Texas up to Wisconsin on Thursday, and I got some new noise-canceling headphones after being told we're gonna have her five cats in the F-150 with us. When Marshall says "Active Noise Canceling" man they mean it. You can't hear anything else with these things on.

A tidbit of wisdom that it took me many years to come to terms with: The goal of private-sector experimentation isn't learning. Learning is a nice-to-have, but meaningless on its own. The goal of private-sector experimentation is, first and foremost, to maximize revenue or minimize loss.

You can tell the exact day I started a new job at a company that doesn't use GitHub Enterprise

Staking out my bet that if Texas goes purple, specifically with a Democratic governor or U.S. Senator, I will eat a cowboy hat

After 6 fucking tries we finally got the damn thing installed. The holes in the template for the cabinet bottom that came in the box don't match the microwave.

I'm definitely not being extremely passive-aggressive in writing this job description. I'd never do that 😒😬