One of the keys to building great products is to regularly make contact with reality.

It’s useful to think about the underlying utilities that go into running one’s life and business with the same rigor used to build something significant.

I started building AI for notes to help me chat with my library of notes.

I built org-ai using Python which exposes a chat interface through a simple CLI.

Sometimes I want to see how many headings are in an org-mode file I’m working in.

I tested my internet connection with and without NordLayer VPN to compare speed using Cloudflare’s new tool.

Physically making progress on a project makes it much harder to undo due to loss aversion and the sunk cost fallacy.

A survey by Greenhouse found that 76% of workers would look for another job if their company rolled back flexible work policies.

When I first started programming, I thought everyone else was better than me at coding.

It takes four to six months to start seeing any results from SEO work.

When you have multiple Google workspace accounts with calendars, it makes scheduling difficult (e.

All working knowledge has a decay curve of usefulness. If you rely on having up-to-date, deep technical knowledge as a manager, you will eventually lose the thing that makes you effective.

Personhood of self-driving cars and autonomouse vehicles might matter much more than we expect for everyone’s safety.

There is tremendous power in being able to simultaneously hold two ideas in one’s head that appear to be in opposition.

The beauty of science is that it’s true even if you don’t believe in it.

By combining headless browser automation tools with LLMs, you can create an agent that can navigate to websites.

When scoping out and planning work, an easy way to get a comprehensive understading of everything that needs to happen is to enumerate every scenario.

When it comes to markets, skepticism is warranted when optimism is excessive and optimism is warranted when skepticism is excessive.

Support cases at many businesses follow the Pareto principle. For example, DoorDash and Uber 87% of support requests relate to 16 issues.

When Vanmoof started shipping bikes to the US, they experienced a high number of returns because the bike arrived damaged, despite there being warnings on the box to be careful.

I tried out Zapier Natural Language Actions API and found that it’s not particularly good for the one thing I needed it to be good at glueing together other APIs with natural language.

I’ve always wondered why the nature of compounding and any exponential relationship feels unintuitive.

Several products these days have an AI bot that will join your Zoom call and take notes.

I am by no means an art buff but this is my explanation about what is so moving about Michelangelo’s David 500 years after it was made.