Alex's Notes

Since gains from bond trading are capped by the yield at maturity, but only returns if the bond pays out, the value generated is not from what you buy but what you exclude, avoiding bonds that don’t pay out I.

To get the COVID-19 vaccine approved quickly, companies focused on proving the efficacy.

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The internet brought digital abundance—content and media can be freely consumed at massive scale.

It’s difficult to start with microservices because that requires knowing more about the domain and boundaries within the domain that one could know up front.

Notion is a popular wiki that I started using more seriously recently.

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Clubhouse can be thought of as the next stage in the evolution of audio.

Pro rata rights allow investors to retain their percentage ownership in future rounds on the same terms as new investors.

In software development, when you are spending time trying to implement something that the framework you are using either doesn’t do or makes it harder.

Of all the roles and responsibilities an early stage startup CEO has, the most important is finding product market fit.

In frontend development, a component-driven workflow is a way of building websites and applications by breaking down the UI into smaller components and iterating on them independently and composing them together.

Each state requires new hires to be reported as per the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA).

After noticing abysmal performance of Docker for macOS and after a few Google searches (searching ‘docker macos performance’ yields 5MM hits) to confirm the issue, the recommended solution is to use Mutagen.

When a company chooses to operate in stealth mode it provides optionality in a couple of ways.

This note does not have a description yet. Links to this note Stealth Mode Provides Optionality When a company chooses to operate in stealth mode it provides optionality in a couple of ways.

Python 3+ has type annotations that can be used for static type checking using a separate program.

A dynamic programming language used heavily in the startup and scientific community.

A software architecture doc (e.g. ARCHITECTURE.md) is a way of stating the overall structure of the code.

An antilibrary is one’s collection of books that they have not read.

This is a quote attributed to David Wheeler, an early computer scientist who also invented subroutines among other things.

A counter response to the growing sprawl of technologies that argues boring technology (tried and true, more mature) is far more effective than the latest shiny tool that gets popular on HackerNews.

Writing and sharing it is analogous to walking around naked in public.

An administrative services organization (ASO) is an outsourcing provider for HR related administrative work.

In 1930, Italian Futurists led by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti declared that pasta should be replaced with futurists foods and in the meantime, rice.

When organizing the information architecture for a website of applications, there should be no straight line hierarchies.

This note does not have a description yet. Links to this note No Straight Line Hierarchies When organizing the information architecture for a website of applications, there should be no straight line hierarchies.

Most CI (continuous integration) tools run inside VMs in the cloud sometimes nested in other VMs.

This note does not have a description yet. Links to this note Benchmarking Results Can Be Very Different When Run in CI Tools Most CI (continuous integration) tools run inside VMs in the cloud sometimes nested in other VMs.

News is the first pass at writing down the history of our time.

Using demos as a way of focusing on specific functionality and elevating quality.

This note does not have a description yet. Links to this note Demo Driven Development Using demos as a way of focusing on specific functionality and elevating quality.

In a study of companies that implemented a topgrading interview methodology, the mis-hire rate fell from 69.

On the ascent to K2 in 1953, Pete Schoening saved the lives of five members of the expedition by stopping the fall using his ice axe to wedge against a bolder along the mountain.