Over time, a Python project accumulates many migrations using alembic. This can slow down tests (you need to run all migrations every time you create a test DB) and it’s very unlikely you will ever rollback past a certain point in time.

To get a new software engineer up to speed quickly, several things must already be in place.

People feel they understand things better than they actually do. This leads to biases and poor decision-making because of overconfidence in their knowledge.

Now that my Zettelkasten has over a thousand notes, I’d like to try to quite literally create the experience of a conversation with my second brain.

Not all work is outsourceable but tasks that are can help a business scale and save money.

There is trust in the world when things are intensely themselves.

Which of the three kinds of SEO works best depends on the business, but these days editorial content performs the best.

People tend to closely emulate individuals of high-status but the counter signaling they pick up on doesn’t work unless you are already high-status.

The economic benefit of increased wages is highly localized. 8 in 10 people live within 100 miles of where they grew up and disadvantaged groups are less likely to move for higher wages.

Where you live and work is highly dependent on where you grew up.

Truth-tellers need to know the truth so they can say it.

This is a work in progress about how to do initial keyword research for SEO.

The more consistent something is, the more potent it becomes. It might sound boring to say the same things over and over again, but it leads to better results.

AI augmented tools for creative processes like writing (ChatGPT) and drawing (StableDiffusion, DALL-E-2) establish a new baseline for content.

There are three kinds of SEO: technical, programmatic, and editorial. Technical SEO is about setting up the right infrastructure for pages including page speed, internal link architecture, redirects, and so on.

Stutz is a documentary that is ostensibly about therapy, but is really about the endearing relationship between Jonah Hill and his therapist.

There are many things I want to spend less time doing and many things I want to spend more time doing.

Before investing in SEO, evaluate whether or not it has the potential to have a large impact on your business.

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At an early-stage B2B SaaS startup, customer success has one responsibility: make sure customers don’t churn.

When things are going poorly, a natural response is for managers to get closer to the details.

When building products, we’re constantly aware of how imperfect the things we build are.

The problem with unlimited vacation days is that it creates a bimodal distribution of usage—some employees take too little time off and some employees take way too much time off.

I use Alfred to switch between applications using keyboard shortcuts. On average, I use Alfred 127 times per day, mostly to use keyboard shortcuts.