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).

I’m currently reading and taking notes on Understanding Michael Porter by Joan Magretta.

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

Like many financial services hedge-fund crossover investing makes money by charging fees for assets under management.

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.