Caleb Lewallen

Healthy Tension: The Relationship Between Product and Engineering

The oft given advice in product circles is that the best performing teams emerge from a healthy tension – great outcomes are forged under pressure. The idea is that in order to maximize the results from my engineering colleagues, I should ask for something slightly unreasonable, which through conflict we'

Composable Data Platforms are the Future

This post is inspired by this amazing article by Jack Vanlightly. I've taken a lot of his ideas and shaped them around some of the enterprise workflows I've been a part of recently, and tweaked them in a way that I think works for a couple

Get the Joy Back

We've all been there. Stuck in the doldrums of going through the motions and just not in it anymore. Where you used to have fun building cool things, now you're just stuck in a rut and just don't care anymore. That spark you had

Calculating the odds of a change in Fed Funds

An interactive version of this article can be found here: https://ratehike.caleblewallen.com/ Here's a question for you – as of late June 2024, how many rate cuts, if any, do you expect the FOMC to make by the end of this year? Outside of the talking heads

A New Chapter

I know it's been a while since I've actually published anything. There's been a lot going on in my personal life, which meant that consistent writing has just fallen by the wayside a bit. Over the summer of 2023, I decided to leave my

AI Will Make More Developers, Not Less: The Economic Argument

I think the growing consensus among the tech world right now is that AI is going to eventually take over most white collar jobs. I've written before about how AI is going to take over (half) your job, but I'm starting to think I was wrong,