# Tag: 🩷

- URL: https://eugeneyan.com/tag/%F0%9F%A9%B7
- Index of the whole site: https://eugeneyan.com/llms.txt

- [Advice for New Principal Tech ICs (i.e., Notes to Myself)](https://eugeneyan.com/writing/principal.md) (2025-10-19): Based on what I've learned from role models and mentors in Amazon
- [Training an LLM-RecSys Hybrid for Steerable Recs with Semantic IDs](https://eugeneyan.com/writing/semantic-ids.md) (2025-09-14): An LLM that can converse in English & item IDs, and make recommendations w/o retrieval or tools.
- [Building AI Reading Club: Features & Behind the Scenes](https://eugeneyan.com/writing/aireadingclub.md) (2025-01-12): Exploring how an AI-powered reading experience could look like.
- [Seemingly Paradoxical Rules of Writing](https://eugeneyan.com/writing/paradox.md) (2024-12-01): With regard to writing, there are many rules and also no rules at all.
- [AlignEval: Building an App to Make Evals Easy, Fun, and Automated](https://eugeneyan.com/writing/aligneval.md) (2024-10-27): Look at and label your data, build and evaluate your LLM-evaluator, and optimize it against your labels.
- [Writing Robust Tests for Data & Machine Learning Pipelines](https://eugeneyan.com/writing/testing-pipelines.md) (2022-09-04): Or why I should write fewer integration tests.
- [The Metagame of Applying Machine Learning](https://eugeneyan.com/writing/machine-learning-metagame.md) (2021-05-02): How to go from knowing machine learning to applying it at work to drive impact.
- [How to Write Better with The Why, What, How Framework](https://eugeneyan.com/writing/writing-docs-why-what-how.md) (2021-02-28): Three documents I write (one-pager, design doc, after-action review) and how I structure them.
- [What I Did Not Learn About Writing In School](https://eugeneyan.com/writing/what-i-did-not-learn-about-writing-in-school.md) (2020-08-02): Surprising lessons I picked up from the best books, essays, and videos on writing non-fiction.
- [The 85% Rule: When Giving It Your 100% Gets You Less than 85%](https://eugeneyan.com/writing/when-giving-your-100-gets-you-less-than-85.md) (2020-07-09): I thought giving it my all led to maximum outcomes; then I learnt about the 85% rule.