The removal of the average weak tie does more damage than the removal of the average strong tie when it comes to diffusion of information in a social network.

Most package managers have some form of a lockfile which freezes the exact version of a installed libraries.

Typing on a mechanical keyboard is like writing with a fountain pen.

Wokeism is a cultural export. Nearly every country now has a woke movement that seeks to right a wrong, argues that people should be sensitive to it, and purge wrongdoers.

Rather than spend months building an MVP, which might not work, you can test a startup idea incrementally.

Public APIs are default closed due to security and abuse concerns.

Hyperlinks are a reliable way of connecting content together. However, they are not a solid foundation for distributed knowledge that can be added to over time.

In The trouble with capitalism, Edward Feser argues that the moral failings of today’s capitalism is caused by fixation on wealth.

A study that analyzed anonymized employee-level (email, calendar, etc.) found that the sudden shift from the office to remote work resulted in a silo’ing effect—employees spent more time with strong ties and less time with weak ties from December 2019 to June 2020.

A paper published in Nature on Sept 9, 2021 that studies the effects of shifting from office work to remote work at Microsoft.

A hapax logomenon (“being said once” in Greek) is a word that only appears once in the written record of a language, author, or single text.

Given two people and a set of all persons with ties to either of them, the stronger the tie between the two people the more overlap exists between their friendship circles.

When it comes to network diffusion of information or influence, all bridges (a line in a network graph that represents the only connection between two points) are weak ties.

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A study of a global manufacturing firm found that scientists and engineers who often walked by one another in the office were significantly more likely to end up collaborating at the beginning of projects.

Remote work naturally leads to more communication with people you collaborate with regularly.

When the primary means of collaboration is asynchronous (as is the case of remote work), the rules and norms of a remote team need to be more deliberate.

When asking questions about things that happened in the past, it is significantly easier for someone to confirm whether something is true or not rather than retracing a series of past events.

To make emacs more modern looking in v26, you can enable a “natural title bar” (the color of title bar matches the color of the buffer).

There are two common elements of economic superstars. First, there is a close connection between personal reward and size of the market.

A study published in Nature found that dogs can tell the difference when a human makes an intentional action versus an unintentional one.

Improving product quality requires consistent and ongoing attention. You will simply miss all of the details that contribute to low product quality if you don’t use the app every day.

A survey by Visier found that 89% of employees experienced burnout in the past year.

The Growth incidence curve from 1988 to 2008, also known as the Elephant Graph, shows the income growth by percentile of global income distribution.

CDC data shows that 74 percent of breakthrough COVID-19 cases are among adults 65 or older and make up the vast majority of vaccinated people that are hospitalized.

A speech by Theodore Roosevelt in Paris 1910 that railed against cynics who looked down on those attempting to do great things.

A distinctly American idea is that liberating oneself will result in the liberation of everyone else.

A recent meta-analysis study compared the impact of general mental ability and emotional intelligence in entrepreneurial settings and found that emotional intelligence was twice as important for explaining success.

Projects that use docker for local development run into a problem when trying to use language servers with their text editor—they don’t handle multiple environments.

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A study in China of COVID-19 survivors (median age 59) who were hospitalized found that half had a persisting symptom one year later—Long COVID.

The new law turns enables a tourist visa for up to one year with proof of stable income and medical insurance.

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One way to mitigate CSRF attacks is to only allow cookies to be forwarded along with a request if they are from the same site, SameSite=Lax or SameSite=Strict.