I really like the way Paul Graham characterizes the difference between persistence and obstinance in his essay The Right Kind of Stubborn.

From a recent survey paper about associative thinking, the authors found that more creative people generate a broader set of associations compared to less creative people and tend to perceive distant associations as closer together.

One explanation for how creativity works is by a process called associative thinking.

A recent study measuring the effect of including the term “artificial intelligence” in the description of products and services decreases overall purchase intent.

The essay Advantages of incompetent management by Yossi Kreinin, discusses how competent management isn’t always best and we overlook the desirable effects of incompetent management.

I use a docker container to build a fairly large hugo static website and vite to build some javascript.

In Double your productivity without more work or stress, the author makes the argument that the way to increase overall velocity is to decrease the amount of low-velocity periods of work.

The annual percentage changes of the stock market go up and down more than the actual businesses in it.

We can’t go back in time so the only thing that can provide value is in the present and future.

The longer something takes to deliver value, the less valuable it is.

Today there is an abundance of everything. Shows to watch. Content to read.

Some anecdotes as I readjust to life on the east coast.

The product or service in which, value goes to users first and then, upon capturing a mass audience of users, provides values to suppliers.

An AI agent is an intent-based abstraction that combines LLMs to plan and take action in order produce a desired goal.

Several startups are touting AI employees that you can hire to perform a specific function.

A common question in product management that always seems to come up is some flavor of: should product managers be technical?

Notes on the video 13 Years of Brutally Honest Business Advice.

Writing is like taking an idea and turning it into a rigid object.

According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the contribution to US GDP in Q1 2024 of professional services industries was more than double that of information industries (which includes softare publishing).

Using org-mode and org-roam can make a rudimentary CRM system for logging interactions with people, companies, or any other contact.

Software abstractions save us time doing work by not having to write programs from lower level building blocks.

A problem that crops up often in web design is centering.

Working asynchronously is an important reason why remote teams work. However, it can devolve into anti-patterns.

Low bitrate audio codecs are primarily used for downscaling audio for slower internet connection speeds and supporting older devices.