While the exact details are unknown, Godel claimed to have discovered a contradiction in the US Constitution that could allow the democracy to be legally turned into a dictatorship.

When a founder lead initial sales at a startup they can quickly respond to each scenario, positioning, and answering questions.

In a recent study looking at the impact of remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic found that perception of organizational support for remote work correlates with higher reported productivity and gains in productive working time.

91% of companies offer 1-2 PPO medical plans to their employees and the majority contribute over 85% of the premium.

As remote work ramps up, many people are looking for a higher quality webcam to use with video conferencing software.

The SQLite database can be compiled to webassembly and served using static website hosting.

When you are doing sales, the pitch needs to focus on the customer and helping them solve their problems.

Some companies recently tried to separate business from politics so they can better focus on their mission.

The “Untethered Class” are people with no school-aged children, renters with remote-friendly jobs that tend to skew younger and higher income.

While the percentage of permanent moves from major metro areas increased an average 3%, permanent moves from San Francisco increased 23%.

84% of moves in the top 50 metro areas during the pandemic were within the metro area.

Stork Search is a full text search engine written in Rust that compiles to WebAssembly.

Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) has special tax rules which can result in no taxes when sold.

A Python dataclass simplifies the setup of a class with many attributes.

Unlike Arabic or Roman numerals, a Cistercian numeral can represent any number between 1 and 9999 with a single glyph.

A MaxDiff comparison helps reveal the ranking of pairs of features without directly asking users to stack rank them.

Próspera is a charter city run by the Honduras Próspera Inc (HPI) in conjuction with the Honduras government ZEDE laws which enable setting up economic zones (i.

Versioning is a pricing strategy for information products where you create different versions of the product for different users.

A ‘back of the napkin’ estimate that can be quite accurate.

Paul Graham argues in How people get rich now that we are returning to a period where wealth is mostly generated from starting companies (as opposed to inherited wealth from oil and natural resources) and that’s a good thing even though wealth inequality is growing.

An off speed high arching pitch in baseball that is meant to catch batters offguard.

In a tweetstorm from Andrew Wilkinson about how their task list app Flow was out competed by Asana.

Curtis Yarvin wrote in a blog post announcing his departure from Urbit, that building a product is like an annealing process.

NASA uses a Human-Rating Certification for vehicles transporting a human crew into space.

There are two approaches for creating something of significance, the cathedral and the bazaar.

The core thesis of Monetizing Innovation is that product failure is rooted in the failure to put the customer’s willingness to pay at the core of product design.

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Inspiration quickly fades and is not enough to sustain a prolonged effort.

Public data from San Francisco revealed disturbing statistics about buildings and homes that show how difficult it is to create new housing.

In the early years of his career, Robert Moses—with all of his idealism and arrogance—failed to reform the New York City government and improve efficiency as he proposed.

This note does not have a description yet. Links to this note Robert Moses Was a Failure in the First 5 Years of His Career In the early years of his career, Robert Moses—with all of his idealism and arrogance—failed to reform the New York City government and improve efficiency as he proposed.

The probability that belief A is true, given new evidence B is equal to the probability of B given A times the probability of A (regardless of B) divided by the probability of B (regardless of A).

Conventional ways people (and law enforcement) use to spot a liar is pseudoscience.

A traditional rhythm which is a variation of the Chaabi found in Northern Africa.

Being all consumed by engineering (writing blogs, contributing to open source, giving away your time) is not good because it leads to burnout and perpetuates more people to do the same.