Automation
3 posts tagged with "Automation"
- Jan 22, 2026
🔧 A Small Win: Rethinking a Spreadsheet-Heavy Process
I used to follow a writing rule: “write as if to yourself six months ago.” I think that timeframe should probably be revised to monthly or even weekly. Things are moving fast. In late December 2025, Andrej Karpathy: former AI director at Tesla, co-founder of OpenAI, the person who coined “vibe coding”, shared something that resonated deeply with me: Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession.
- Dec 21, 2022
🪡Stitching Success - 3 Tax Tech Wisdoms from Sewing and Dressmaking 👗
The COVID-19 pandemic brought an unexpected amount of downtime, leading many of us to pick up new hobbies to keep ourselves engaged. One of my favourite new hobbies I picked up during the pandemic was dressmaking. Although it might seem worlds away from my professional life in tax technology, I discovered that the careful art of tailoring has some surprisingly relevant lessons for my work. Here are the top three.
- Jun 21, 2021
Building a Withholding Tax Determination Engine
I. What is withholding tax? Withholding tax (“WHT”) refers to an amount of tax withheld at source at a certain rate determined by local tax law. The most common example is payroll taxes withheld and paid by employers on employee wages. Withholding taxes also apply where sellers and buyers are situated in different jurisdictions, with rates varying by country or due to specific double tax treaties between tax authorities. WHT can be applied to different types of remuneration, such as dividend, interest, royalty, commission, fees, and rentals, as well as transactions, i.