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Quantum interference does not affect the behavior of larger more complex objects (like human beings) the way it does for individual elementary particles due to entanglement.
Conventional wisdom says you should do one thing and do it really well.
Building a big B2B business (valued in the billions of dollars) necessitates having customers paying you over $1MM per year for your product.
Tools are something that a business finds familiar. There is a category and a known list of things it should do.
Objective knowledge is possible and it comes from within. Communication is lossy so even precise books and teaching can not transfer objective knowledge.
Once a hex screw is stripped it can be difficult to remove.
Building tooling for transactional emails takes time and in the early days of building a product you’re still figuring out what to build.
After a large uptick in notifications, I’m experimenting with turning off notifications on all devices except one.
Some startups are changing the exercise window for stock options from 90 days to something longer.
Hot iron and cold iron When in opposition, cold iron wins every time.
WebUtils is a browser-only way of converting images between various formats and compressing them using WebAssembly.
A fence is a man made object that takes cost and effort to construct.
With so much emphasis on productivity these days, an underappreciated problem is work avoidance—not doing what you should be doing because you are doing something else.
We tend to think of money as something tangible and, once you have it, it can be used interchangeably anywhere it’s used for procuring goods and services.
An easy way to display a PDF preview in the browser is to use an iframe and set the src to a link to the file.
A clock is base 12 (a 12 hour clock) and base 60 (an hour contains 60 minutes).
Meeting an investor for the first time and trying to get them to invest immediately is difficult.
For new knowledge to be created, there needs to be an error correcting mechanism.
Founders that are willing to take on problem areas that are unappealing because it seems like a lot of work is a moat.
A Pew Research Center Survey found that 61% of remote workers who have a company office say it’s their choice not to work from there.
When joining a new team, a common piece of advice is to “gain credibility” by doing undesirable tasks others don’t want to do.
Visionaries pushing some form of utopia are defined by their pessimism.
We do not yet know what we have not discovered and trying to know the unknowable (prophesy) leads to pessimism.
A good churn rate for a B2B company serving small and medium businesses (SMB) and mid-market businesses (< 1000 employees) is 2.