A global employment organization (GEO) is an employer of record that is used to hire employees outside of the client’s country.

SUTA dumping is fraudulent arbitrage of State Unemployment Tax where fraud-y PEOs put employees from high insurance rate companies into a new entity with a low insurance rate and pocketed the difference.

PEOs charge between 2-7% of the dollar volume of the payroll for their services (more for GEOs) generating revenue between $1,200 per employee per year up to $4,000 (source: JP Morgan).

Employee leasing was started in the 1960s and is a predecessor to professional employer organizations (PEO).

While government tends to be short-term oriented (the election cycle drives decisions so officials can be re-elected), an area the do feel comfortable thinking long term is infrastructure.

Notion has limited support for counting rows in a table using rollups.

Learning is composed of two elements: surprise and memory. If you go about life and nothing is surprising then you wouldn’t have anything new to learn.

To summarize the difference in mindset between the two places—San Francisco is living in the future and New York City is living in the present.

Our senses are attuned to things that change quickly (like the lottery), but this causes us to miss what is actually going on (gambling means losing).

Organizations tend to set up their engineering organization in one of two ways.

To implement a ‘jump to random page’ in a static site (like this website) can be done using a template has JavaScript function to redirect the browser.

The US space program led to the first color photographs of the Earth taken from the Moon in 1969.

In Manhattan, I found a Starbucks that was pick-up only and you had to order online.

When in NYC you feel like a different person. It’s also an exciting place to be that makes you feel like a person that does exciting things.

Fetching API data from a component using React requires handling loading, error, auth, and success states.

Obsolete storage formats present two difficult challenges if they are to be preserved.

Thinking in different scales of time reveals problems in our rapid rate of technological progress.

Although it sounds like a truism, working hard is required to do great work.

We’re starting to see news outlets say there is an alarming trend where vaccinated people are getting COVID-19 (such as this one from the WSJ).

The reason you shouldn’t rely on what economists say to make decisions (for example in financial decisions) is because nobody grades an economist.

Optimism is the most rational viewpoint to have by default. Unlike pessimism or negativity, optimism is helpful even when faked because we find evidence for whichever mindset we have.

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A mutation of COVID-19 is spreading quickly throughout the world and threatens recovery efforts.

Jiddu Krishnamurti recounts a story about a man who has in solitude and meditated for 25 years only to recognize that it was a waste.

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When you sell software, the buyer considers whether or not they need more software.

When you are trying to figure out why a particular step in the funnel isn’t working, start by looking at the previous step.

When you sell solutions not software, you need to be as concrete as possible about the buyer’s use case so you can describe your solutions in the same terms they use to evaluate it.

Grammarly improves the overall level of communication within an organization, but if you think of it as an organizational linter it does much more.

Immanual Kant states that between instinct and culture is wildness. It is in mankind’s nature to be raw and wild so we find ways to cover up this wildness through culture—a collective set of customs, art, and achievements.

In discussing market changes, Howard Marks, remarks that psychology overwhelms fundamentals in the short run as the reason why markets can appear irrational.

It takes effort to make decisions and when confronted with numerous decisions to make, people get fatigued.

An object that is rotating on it’s intermediate axis is unstable.

A saying from a Korean drama (which might be poorly translated into English) that all it takes is a few people to spread something.

Al Smith was a poor Irish-American who grew up in the Fourth Ward of New York City (Lower East Side).