One of the most important parts of org-mode is the ability to capture items quickly.

I’ve been thinking more about how to live a rich digital life and what that means in a world of abundance.

A 14 year longitudinal study found that being disagreeable—aggressive, selfish, manipulative, and so on—does not have a positive relationship with obtaining power at work.

Roman concrete used thousands of years ago is significantly more durable than modern concrete.

Private investment firms like venture capital and private equity are in the business of avoiding visible volatility of public markets.

The internet is a place of digital abundance with zero friction to publishing.

A strange loop is a combination of traits that creates the condition for selfhood.

A novel by Andy Weir. Links to this note Frequency Range of Hearing Is Probably the Same in the Universe

According to Kastle, office occupancy stagnated after a concerted push of return-to-office plans by many businesses.

When we use language to communicate with each other, other bodies become an extension of ourselves.

Whenever there are a hundred things or more in a process someone is doing, there is a recognition that “there must be a better way”.

I read Unbundling Tools for Thought and I find myself agreeing and disagreeing.

Outline for my annual essay about things I learned and reflections for the year.

A common mistake for early managers is to delegate work ineffectively.

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.