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Andrew@Dodgeball 🍁 @andrew-at-sea.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

One more startup to exploit the decline of the American Empire: Arctic-Enabled drones and unmanned ships. With global warming, Canada and Scandinavia have both massive opportunities as well as massive exposures in the Arctic. And with Trump threatening Denmark over Greenland, they need solutions

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Andrew@Dodgeball 🍁 @andrew-at-sea.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

More thinking about how to leverage the Trump tariffs. Certified Non-American tech! Every major American ally is now working out how to survive an American veto. You can't do that if all your tech infrastructure is made in the US. Canada and the EU have massive infrastructure debts to fill.

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Andrew@Dodgeball 🍁 @andrew-at-sea.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

What's the upside to the Trump tariffs? To date, most realistic discussions have been about why they're bad for everyone. But every catastrophe is an opportunity: what white space does this open up? First, let's say what you don't do: you don't rush to own the market for rags, toilet paper, cars

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Andrew@Dodgeball 🍁 @andrew-at-sea.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Torshavn coffee thoughts: preparations to fly back to Boston while Canadian and actions to take should I be detained! Kind of weird that business continuity planning now includes serious analysis of what to do if the CTO disappears into US custody.

State transition diagram in case I disappear from US immigration @BOS

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Andrew@Dodgeball 🍁 @andrew-at-sea.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Gásadalur in the Faroe Islands, where the greatest danger is flocks of chickens racing around the village and taunting the ducks.

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Andrew@Dodgeball 🍁 @andrew-at-sea.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Today we're rolling out two interesting features to test for fraud: - Queries into the (freely available) FCC Do Not Call register of violations to determine whether a given phone number corresponds to a known abuser. - Auto-generated summaries of fraud decisions. GenAI needs data to feed!

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Andrew@Dodgeball 🍁 @andrew-at-sea.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I'm trying very hard to not be that Ugly Canadian, but it feels like Americans just don't get it. Incompetent authoritarians don't just hurt people in far off countries, they set up payback that hits very quickly when it does. Europe may or may not step up to this moment -- but how will you all?

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Andrew@Dodgeball 🍁 @andrew-at-sea.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This is an interesting point in time to read mainstream economists. The Trump administration probably has a lot more destruction in it, but you can see that their incompetence has already set up visible failures in time for the 2028 elections. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

foreignaffairs.com

The Post-Neoliberal Delusion

The tragedy of Bidenomics.

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Andrew@Dodgeball 🍁 @andrew-at-sea.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Gásadalur in the Faroe Islands. I have a Scandinavian fetish, so we're working from Tórshavn, (the harbour of Thor) for the next month. The Faroes are a fascinating mix of communal economics and cultural conservatism. Combining government subsidies on everything with a ban on abortions.

Gásadalur in the Faroe Islands, seen from the air flying in to Vagar Airport

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Andrew@Dodgeball 🍁 @andrew-at-sea.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Black box intuition beats logical thought one more time! Ignoring politics, it's striking how this applies to deploying AI software. People always scream about how opaque algorithms need human-meaningful explanation -- when the real problem is that they're wrong. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

politico.com

Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.

Here’s why unemployment is higher, wages are lower and growth less robust than government statistics suggest.

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Andrew@Dodgeball 🍁 @andrew-at-sea.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Very topical, and actually a case of Trump delivering as promised. Somehow Americans pretty much across the board seem to have decided that government is only valuable when someone else pays for it. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

foreignaffairs.com

Trump and the Perils of Ungoverning

Institutions under assault will not deliver for Americans.

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Nathan Clement @njclement.com · 31/01/2025

How can you protect a Shopify store from fraud using the Dodgeball App?? Video breakdown 0:00 Introduction 0:31 The Checkpoint Editor 0:42 A Simple Test for Emails 1:45 Email Analysis with AtData 2:52 Test Order on Shopify 3:18 Payment Protection with Sift 4:48 More Capabilities 5:27 Summary

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Protecting your Shopify Store with Dodgeball

YouTube video by Dodgeball

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Andrew@Dodgeball 🍁 @andrew-at-sea.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

“Every bubble is unique until it bursts” When a new technology comes about, it's comfortable to think that existing money and hiring an entire MIT class will protect the IBMs of the day. Whereas the real lesson of innovation is that small groups of the smart/hungry/driven always dominate.

in 1996, Bill Gates and Microsoft were predicted to dominate the .com era

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Andrew@Dodgeball 🍁 @andrew-at-sea.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

More generally, there’s a cute approach here for AI/ML SaaS providers like us: rather than providing a static service from which clients can extract content, create a smart embedding that lives in the client’s application or browser. Then provide a management interface to drive the embedded system

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Andrew@Dodgeball 🍁 @andrew-at-sea.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Riding the Berlin subway, I was thinking about how easy it is to criticize other people's systems, and how hard it is to build a good one. @njclement.com just published a video that exemplifies why I like Dodgeball: we simplify our customer’s systems.

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Andrew@Dodgeball 🍁 @andrew-at-sea.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

It isn't AI if it just gets in the way, and using an LLM doesn’t make your software useful. Clippy's just annoying: he doesn’t help, keeps popping up, and forces you to look at him. The real challenge in AI isn't the algorithms: it's figuring out how to make it additive to a working system.

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Andrew@Dodgeball 🍁 @andrew-at-sea.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

We just wrote our first Engineering Manifesto Against Fraud! From a purely financial perspective, that's interesting: businesses in general lose 5% of revenue to fraud, and it can be much worse for fast-growing online companies. dodgeball-engineering.medium.com/uncovering-e...

dodgeball-engineering.medium.com

Uncovering Engineering Best Practices for Fraud

Better Protection with Less Work

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Nathan Clement @njclement.com · 08/01/2025

Really excited about an article in the pipeline explaining how to think about fraud in 2025 as an Engineer. Here's a little taste!

A simple black-and-white graphic with the heading “Should you bother fighting fraud?” in large bold text. Below it, in smaller text, reads: “Stop guessing! Compute the net value of your anti-fraud strategy today:”

Underneath is an equation that says:
• Net Value = Value ( (Prevented Fraud) + (BrandTrust) – (Friction) ) – Cost( (Protection) + (BrandDmg) )

Where:
• “Prevented Fraud” is labeled “Fraud Prevented,”
• “BrandTrust” is labeled “Perceived Trustworthiness,”
• “Friction” is labeled “Lost Business,”
• “Protection” is labeled “People, Hardware, Software,”
• “BrandDmg” is labeled “False Positives.”

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Andrew@Dodgeball 🍁 @andrew-at-sea.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Last day of Gluhwein season in Berlin. Lovely in the snow, but still very serious!

Berlin snowstorm Christmas market Gluhwein mulled wine

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Andrew@Dodgeball 🍁 @andrew-at-sea.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

We're working on our next generation of Enterprise Optimization software! A lot of engineers look at AI as dead algorithms: someone else wrote an Algorithm or Created an Agent, which you drop onto your code with a splat! Instead, we're focused on optimizing client systems around AI to stop fraud

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