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Blue States Will Benefit Most From Remote Work
Workers moving from tech hubs to red states for remote work could be inhibited by conservative legislation like anti-abortion laws.
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Successful Organizations Don't Suffer Fools
Managers are essential to scaling a successful organization but have a large blast radius if things go wrong.
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Thinking Better Thoughts
I remember when I first started working at Stripe I felt like the dumbest person in the room.
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Revenue Multiples Fell From 24x in 2021 to 10x in 2022
Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) revenue multiples in public markets for SaaS businesses rose sharply from 2019 to 2021 up to as high as 24x.
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Creating Meaning Through Analogy
One of the most profound findings from Godel’s incompleteness theorem is that meaning can be mapped onto a system that was specifically designed to prevent it.
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Enterprise Businesses Expect a Consultative Sales Experience
When selling B2B software, self-serve and product-led growth is appealing business model (no sales people, account managers, etc.
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The Jump to Remote Work Universality
Remote work has not yet made the jump to universality. We’re still in the phase of “specialized work objects” which are a combination technology to perform the work, jobs that can be performed remotely, and businesses that can operate anywhere.
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Run an AWS ECS Task From the Command Line
To run a one-off ECS task from the aws CLI in Fargate you need to specify the subnet, set assignPublicIp to enabled (otherwise it will fail to pull the container image), and optionally include overrides to run the command you want.
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Designing for Non-Experts
Building tools to help users that are not experts in the thing they are using the tool to do presents unique design challenges.
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Remote Work Requires Trust
Some of the biggest criticism of the remote work movement is that people aren’t actually doing work.
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Remote Work Is a Supply Side Problem
There has always been strong demand for remote work and it wasn’t until the global COVID-19 pandemic that the supply side (employers) briefly caught up.
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Broken Escalators Are Still Stairs
Like the Mitch Hedburg joke, “when escalators break they become stairs—sorry for the convenience” reminds us about the importance of designing systems that fail gracefully.
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The Further From the Self, the Less Real It Feels
The realest thing to anyone is themselves. The further from the self the less real things feel.
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14% of US Adults Have Had Long Covid
A Household Pulse Survey (HPS) found that more than 14% of US adults have or had Long COVID.
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Perception Is Not Reception and Awareness
When we talk about perception we should be careful not to confuse it with reception and awareness (or souledness).
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Outsourced Thinking
Having to think about everything all the time would be impractical so people rely on other people to think certain thoughts for them.
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How to Write for Remote Teams
Writing is the much-discussed secret to building great remote teams. How do you write for a remote team?
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Redshift Is Not From Motion but From Expansion
One of the observations that supports the Big Bang theory is the redshift of galaxies.
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Presence of a Feedback Loop Shifts Perception From Mechanics to Desires
When we see an object that has a feedback loop we ascribe it a more human goal-oriented desire.
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Half of the US Workforce Works Remotely at Least Some Days per Week
A working paper from Stanford Digital Economy Lab studying the differences between attempts at measuring the number of US workers that work remotely found that half of US workers work remotely at least some days per week.
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FMLA and Remote Work
The rules for when a company must provide federally mandated medical leave to employees may change due to remote work.
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Everybody Is Great When They're Rested
It’s an easy excuse to tell yourself you can’t do something because you’re tired.
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Is Your Pricing Too High?
How do you know if your price is too high? A few things could be happening: the product isn’t actually as valuable as you are selling, you’re talking to the wrong customers, you’re not conveying the value, or any combination of the three.
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Alcohol Is Technology for Cooperation
The paradox of alcohol consumption is that it’s bad for our health and costly to society yet continues to thrive.