Dew of Your Youthhttps://www.dewofyouryouth.com/A blog by Jacob Shore about genealogy, language learning, faith, and software — tracing family history, studying Arabic, and thinking carefully about things that matter.enWed, 24 Jun 2026 03:58:40 UTCCount First, Interpret Secondhttps://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/count-first/https://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/count-first/Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:27:13 +0300Count First, Interpret Second My personal-ops bot’s weekly digest kept turning noisy logs into confident diagnoses. The fix was one rule: count first, interpret second, diagnose cautiously.Reed, Not Cedar: Building a Productivity System That Bends With Youhttps://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/reed-not-cedar/https://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/reed-not-cedar/Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:25:35 +0300Reed, Not Cedar: Building a Productivity System That Bends With You I built a Telegram bot to offload my executive function and accidentally gave myself a taskmaster. So I rebuilt it around one rule from the Talmud and the Daode Jing: be a reed, not a cedar — firm but yielding, advisory not prescriptive.Don’t Clip Your Wings: On Building Systems That Push You Toward Greatnesshttps://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/clipping-your-wings/https://www.dewofyouryouth.com/post/clipping-your-wings/Sun, 31 May 2026 15:56:24 +0300Don’t Clip Your Wings: On Building Systems That Push You Toward Greatness Completion rate is a trap. The moment your productivity system scores you on what percentage of commitments you finish, the rational move is to stop writing down anything you might actually fail at. I ran into this building my own personal ops system, and it turns out fixing it means thinking about Item Response Theory, Glicko ratings, and the Sharpe ratio.