It’s surprising how much selling happens by sending follow-up emails. We all lead busy lives (for better or worse) and a well-timed nudge can result in a sale.

An easy way to spot bad business writing is to check if it poses and answers a key question.

An experiment suggests that quantum processes (entanglement) might be used by brain functions which could explain memory performance and conscious awareness.

Tupper’s formula displays its formula when plotted on a graph. This is a form of recursion but more like a mirror.

One of the key points of I Am a Strange Loop is how the “I” develops into consciousness.

In org-mode, macros can be used to expand text but are only visible when exported.

This quote by Jeffrey Pfeffer, professor at Stanford GSB, sums up the difficulty of achieving something different by doing the same things.

This is a work-in-progress as I’m still refining an org-agenda centric workflow.

Business problems that are being solved with software tend to reduce to a data modeling problem.

The share of remote job postings across the US, UK, NZ, CA, and AUS have increased since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

I watched a press conference of Bill Belichick being asked about long snappers and whether it’s worth having a dedicated roster spot for a specialist.

There should only be one primary action the user can take on the screen at a time.

Tags are used to create heterarchical systems that lets you iterate on retrieval.

Coordination in the absence of communication. For example, two players in a game can’t talk to each other but they want to team up for a quest.

Does remote work make the principal-agent problem worse? If so, why?

The following list of things are my choices for boring technology.

The likelihood of pivoting seems to increase as the number of founders increases.

The American Community Survey from 2021 by the US Census Bureau showed that the largest share of working from home was in major cities and metropolitan areas.

The abundance of stuff—both online and offline—means that every conceivable niche is available to everyone.

For as long as possible, in an early-stage startup, one of the founders should write the check for any expenses of the company.

My personal site now gets 1,000 clicks per month from Google searches.

There’s now an official API for Grammarly and a language server.

A recent analysis of the trading volume of NFTs found that it fell 97% from $17 billion in January to $466 million in September.

An effective way for announcing new features is to use the user/problem/answer tweet thread format.