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A meta-study of research of 1MM people, found differences in personalities and cognitive abilities.
A new study on the climate impact of teleworking found that switching from working onsite to working from home full time can reduce up to 58% of work’s carbon footprint.
A pattern I really like in Notion is that you can a @ (at) mention any page with search as you type and autocomplete.
A study of 73,000 NFT collections found that more than 95% had a market cap of zero ether and an estimated 23 million people are holding worthless assets.
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The nice part about ChromaDB is that you can read the tables in SQLite using the new Emacs 29 sqlite-mode.
You can turn off sending telemetry data to ChromaDB (now a venture backed startup) when using langchain.
ChromaDB is a vector database used for similarity searches on embeddings.
As software grows, patterns and practices naturally evolve. Inevitably, someone comes to the conclusion that a change should happen and code should be migrated to the new thing.
Marl is the marginal user. The one who represents the broad base of users that drive most product decisions to the lowest common denominator.
According to the Lightspeed sales benchmark report for 2023, win rates decreased for 42% of companies surveyed.
When it comes to selling an asset, it’s helpful to remember that it only takes two people to make an auction.
In sales, it’s easy to mislead yourself into thinking a sales deal is on track when it’s not.
A common data consistency issue is writing empty strings to the database.
A DRI is a commonly used organizational pattern where one person is directly responsible for the overall outcome of an initiative.
When you see something absurd in the market, it’s helpful to ask, “What’s the trade?
Every portfolio and every decision can be decomposed into being long something and short something.
Being able to programmatically generate content for search engine optimization is only useful if you have a lot of keywords you can target (thousands) and pages you can generate to rank for them.
You can use a watch with a dive bezel to track two timezones at onces without a GMT hand.
In 2023, the average time between raising a Series A and Series B round increased to 31 months according to Crunchbase.
People tend to think impressive results must come from impressively complicated means and effort.
A book by Sönke Ahrens about taking notes to improve productivity and writing.
A blog post from GitHub says that their code assistance tool, Copilot, is behind 46% of developers' code, up from 27%.
When negotiating, it’s important to control the frame in which the conversation is happening.