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.

The paradox of alcohol consumption is that it’s bad for our health and costly to society yet continues to thrive.

Having a meaningful mission that draw people in and compels them to do their best work together is more powerful than good culture alone.

A news diet is intentionally limiting yourself to certain quantities and outlets for news and media.

The idea that everyone has their own learning style and learning is most effective when teachers use your style is not based on any scientific evidence.

Tailwind has a plugin for line clamping @tailwindcss/line-clamp that uses pure CSS to truncate text to the specified number of lines.

I use org-mode for taking notes and keeping track of tasks.

Opportunity comes in many shapes and sizes but a consistent limiting factor compliance—the set of rules (written or unwritten) that one must follow to participate in a prosperous endeavor.

Startups don’t have information about them needed for techniques you would typically use to value an investment.

Being successful is mostly luck but working smartly (skill plus hard work) increases your luck.

The Three Body Problem captures your imagination and uses science as a plot point that I haven’t seen before.

Remote work can save employers and estimated $200B per year and help reduce inflation.

Prospective customers will want to review an order form and master software agreement.

People tend to think of objects and living things as having a soul or not having a soul when really it’s a continuous scale of souledness.

Music is a soul shard, little fragments of experience from the composer recreated in your head.

Written by Douglas R. Hofstadter. Links to this note Every Human Consciousness Lives at Once in a Collection of Brains

A recent survey from The Partnership for New York City found 38% of Manhattan office workers are in the workplace as of April 2022.

Contingency recruiting is not very effective for early-stage hiring. Since contingency recruiters get paid only if they are able to fill a job opening and charge 20-25% of the new hire’s first year salary, they tend to share candidate profiles with larger companies that pay higher salaries which make them more money.

There is so much writing that goes into running modern organizations but very little of it is ever seen.

An algorithm for working on hard problems is to shake and pull.

While you can use Emacs in the browser using Codespaces, it involves getting all of your emacs config set up on Codespaces.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed said that workers are not returning to the office which has resulted a loss of $400MM in tax revenue.

Up to this point in the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work has been a buoy keeping many parts of the economy afloat.

According to a recent survey from McKinsey & Company, American workers say they have the option to work part time or full time from home (58% and 35% respectively).