Hi, I'm Scott Galloway.

The War on 404: Making Old Stuff Work Again

When you've been blogging since 2004 (yes, really), you accumulate a lot of digital detritus. I recently imported my old posts from 2004-2009 ( https://www.mostlylucid.net/blog/category/Imported) and discovered that approximately everything was broken.…

Playing with Code: An Efficient Agile Approach

Why treating your branch as a sandbox—and play as legitimate work—produces better software with less stress. Hot take: Most developers are trying to be perfect at every stage of development, and it's killing both their creativity and their productivity. Here's…

RAG for Implementers: Hybrid Search and Automatic Indexing

📖 Part of the RAG Series: This is Part 5 - production integration patterns: Part 1: RAG Origins and Fundamentals - What embeddings are, why they matter Part 2: RAG Architecture and Internals - Chunking, tokenisation, vector databases Part 3: RAG in Practice -…

RAG in Practice: Building Real-World Applications

In Part 1 of this RAG series, we covered the fundamentals of Retrieval-Augmented Generation—what it is, how it works, and the underlying technology (embeddings, vector databases, LLM internals). Now it's time to put that knowledge into practice. This article…

RAG in Practice: Building Real-World Applications

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we covered RAG's origins, fundamentals, and technical architecture. You understand what RAG is, why it matters, and how it works under the hood. Now it's time to put that knowledge into practice. This article shows you how…