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Using Tools for Thought as a Founder
This is a reflection on using org-roam as a founder in the early stages of starting a company.
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Layoffs in Tech
There have been 115 tech companies with layoffs since April 2022 and a steep increase in May.
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San Francisco Population Fell 6.3% From 2020 to 2021
During the early part of the pandemic (July 2020 to July 2021), the population of SF fell 6.
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Adapting to Endure - Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital is the latest big name VC to warn founders about uncertainty in venture capital due to inflation and geopolitical turmoil.
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Remote Work Is Correlated With Happiness
A large-scale survey of 12,000 people found that remote work increases employee happiness by as much as 20%
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Burn Multiples Are a Way of Managing Growth Efficiently
A burn multiple is the amount of cash burned by annual recurring revenue (ARR).
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Running a Startup During a Recession
Startups are a microcosm of the economy and we can observe that things are changing quickly towards a recession footing.
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Inflation Causes Downward Pressure on Startup Valuations
As inflation rises there will be a tightening of money supply and higher interest rates to control it.
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How Long Will a Recession Last?
We are probably in a recession already, but we can’t know for sure for another quarter or so.
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Geneva Is Built Around an Old Chieftan's Grave
St. Pierre’s Cathedral in Geneva is built on top of another church which is built on yet another church going back hundreds of years.
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Cookies Set on a Public Suffix Domain Are Considered Cross-Origin
Setting a cookie doesn’t always have the same behavior. If you set a cookie on a domain listed in the public suffix list using SameSite=strict, it will get blocked by CORS even if they request and the cookie are coming from the same domain.
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Running Docker Compose in Codespaces
Using the built-in docker-compose configuration in GitHub Codespaces is limited. It’s better to run docker-compose inside the Codespace but this requires a docker-in-docker setup which is finicky.
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Codespaces Doesn't Allow Requests Across Ports From a Preview
At time of writing, a CORS error will occur if the web application served in a GitHub preview URL attempts to make a fetch request to a different port.
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The Anthropic Principle Says the Universe Is the Way That It Is Because We Exist
The fact that humans exist with the capacity to observe and theorize about the universe is the explanation for the universe being the way that it is.
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Get Started With Growth Marketing
Growth marketing is simple to get started. Sell the product directly to 10 paying customers.
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An Anti-Universe Could Explain Dark Matter
One of the issues with the big bang theory and observations of the cosmos is that there ought to be more stuff.
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Escher Sentences
A sentence that, upon closer inspection, has no real meaning.
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Absolute Time Does Not Exist
The theory of relativity shows that time is not a constant, but a relative measurement to the observer.
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25% of All Job Postings Are Premanently Remote
According to the Q1 2022 survey by Ladders, 24% of all job posting in the US and Canada are now for permanent remote positions—an increase from 18% in Q4 2021 or roughly 3MM jobs.
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Find All Open Source Licenses Used by Your Codebase
Using license-finder by GitLab makes it easy to list all open source licenses from dependencies of your codebase.
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Compliance Is Dynamic
Employment and tax compliance is not static. Requirements change because of new laws, hiring in a new state, employees relocating, or when government agencies tell you they’ve changed—UI rate changes, notifications and enforcements.
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The Sinn U50 Is a Time Fortress
I bought the Sinn u50 automatic watch in February 2022 and have worn it every day since.
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Dynamically Set the Height of an Element Based on It's Parent
There is not a great way to dynamically fill the vertical space in a parent element in CSS without setting a fixed height.
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54% Percent of Unemployed Job Hunters Are Looking to Work From Home
The March WFH Research survey results show that 54% of unemployed respondents are either exclusively looking for jobs that allow them to work from home or prefer jobs that allow them to work from home.