Emil Sit

I create and lead organizations to deliver outsized impact, while expanding and improving their capabilities. I have 15+ years of management, leadership and software engineering experience at companies including Toast, HubSpot and VMware, backed by a PhD in Computer Science from the distributed systems research group at MIT. Combined with my personal experience practicing yoga and classical music, I bring a people-centered and tech-aware approach to management that emphasizes incremental improvement.

Recent Writings

AI Coding Tools Stifle Tech Adoption

15 February 2025·2 mins

Declan Chidlow expresses concern that AI is stifling tech adoption.

Deepseek Staffs for Innovation Potential

31 January 2025·2 mins

How did DeepSeek achieve such remarkable capabilites in their recent models? In various interviews, founder Liang Wenfeng explains his approach on staffing a culture of innovation.

Chinese AI Models

24 January 2025·2 mins

Jon Keegan notes in Sherwood News that A free, powerful Chinese AI model just dropped — but don’t ask it about Tiananmen Square, exploring what chain-of-thought models reveal about the perspectives encoded in their training.

How to Value Cryptocurrency

22 January 2025·2 mins

Molly White educates us again on how to think about cryptocurrency valuations, writing in her latest Citation Needed newsletter that, No, Trump didn’t make $50 billion from his memecoin

Infrastructure Gravity and Domain Engineering

11 January 2025·2 mins

Jack Danger explains the concepts of Infrastructure Gravity & Domain Engineering in an excerpt from his book, Executive Engineering.