This note does not have a description yet. Links to this note Running a Startup During a Recession

One of the biggest challenge with distributed content networks and the fediverse is discovery.

There is a builtin emacs web browser (eww) but it’s text-based.

Now that I’ve used a CRM from scratch for startup sales and support, I’m coming around to the idea that you should start a personal CRM as early as possible in your career.

It’s been two years since I started a note blog.

Twitter is no longer viable. Use LinkedIn. Old version: Kinds of content to build your audience

The probability of a recession in the near term based on estimates from economists at investment banks.

This guide is for founders starting a fully remote company in the United States.

The Kardeshev scale measures the advancement of civilization based on energy consumption.

There’s a tendency for new people joining a company to immediately draw from their past and implement the things they’ve seen succeed but there is danger in treating experience as a playbook.

Political views based on a reaction to something else (e.g. wearing masks, anti-science, a decision) is a dead end because it says nothing about what you want from this world.

The grug brained developer is the counterpoint of the big brained developer.

In a recent experiment, researchers were able to link two time crystals together by placing them close enough that they could influence each other.

The trust battery is a metaphor for thinking about trust between people.

One question I find myself coming back to is whether or not macroeconomics is a useful source of explanations.

A few thoughts about the book. I was reminded how much humans can endure and survive, even when faced with extraordinary misfortune.

Prices of tech stocks soared during the COVID-19 global pandemic in part due to growth.

Short-sightedness is nearly ubiquitous in East Asia—80% of students and graduates have myopia in Hong Kong and Singapore.

A right-half-plane zero is when the exponential growth rate of an input does not affect the output.

A working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that remote work raised aggregate housing prices by 15% and possibly more.

In a paper about the impact of remote work on commercial office real estate found that value of offices declined 32% from the start of the pandemic.

It used to be an anomaly, now it’s common place. It’s not remote work, it’s just work.

At an early stage startup (less than 10 people), it’s a big advantage to do everyone’s job first.

This is a reflection on using org-roam as a founder in the early stages of starting a company.