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.

The venerable .com TLD and a single word domain are a multiplier that improves nearly every interaction with your business.

There have been 115 tech companies with layoffs since April 2022 and a steep increase in May.

During the early part of the pandemic (July 2020 to July 2021), the population of SF fell 6.

Sequoia Capital is the latest big name VC to warn founders about uncertainty in venture capital due to inflation and geopolitical turmoil.

A large-scale survey of 12,000 people found that remote work increases employee happiness by as much as 20%

A burn multiple is the amount of cash burned compared to annual recurring revenue (ARR).

Startups are a microcosm of the economy and we can observe that things are changing quickly towards a recession footing.

As inflation rises there will be a tightening of money supply and higher interest rates to control it.

We are probably in a recession already, but we can’t know for sure for another quarter or so.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.