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An inverse relationship exists between group size and productivity which shows that group effort does not necessarily lead to increased effort from the group members.

While remote work is obviously better for reducing exposure to COVID-19 than going to the office, the rapid increase in Omicron cases shows that remote work has little impact on reducing Omicron case counts.

A popular view of the environment, “Spaceship Earth”, is that the planet provides just the right biosphere to support human life.

From 2017 to 2021 the median size of Series A funding rounds grew from $7MM to $13MM.

If you sell to startups you should expect churn (they go out of business) and if you happen to catch the next big startup, you’re business model needs to be uncapped to grow along with it.

Every financial transaction, no matter how simple or fast, has non-monetary transaction costs.

Richard Feynman said about science that, “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

A parochial error happens when you falsely believe that something in your narrow view of the world applies more broadly than it does.

The original idea of the web was that everyone would be both a producer and a consumer.

Blockchains are a server technology. They don’t live on the client and things like a web frontend to a dApp can’t perform CRUD operations without a server.

The process of seeking out good explanations is error correcting. It is tolerant of dissent with a healthy dose of skepticism and distrust of authority.

The Emacs advice system lets you modify the code running Emacs in a simple way.

A good explanation can not be modified or molded to fit when new information contradicts it.

One way to answer “how do we know…?” is to justify one’s belief by reference to an authoritative source or cornerstone of knowledge.

In 1984 it was discovered that the Soviet Union was spying on communications from US embassies.

Extrapolating from past data points is not an explanation. Building your confidence that something that will happen—like Bayes Theorem—is useful for descrete, observable problems, but fails to reveal the truth.

Written by David Deutsch. See also: Epistemology Links to this note How to Detect and Eliminate Errors Is the Most Important Knowledge

Using linters on a codebase is a way of automating quality control.

According to GEM 2018 Adult Population Survey, 15.6% of US adults are an owner-manager of an early-stage business.

When things get challenging or stressful, we attempt to reduce our anxiety by doing things (sometimes anything).

An annoying footgun with React hooks is using useState with an initial value from props.

Our attention is highly fractured and leads to a constant feeling of restlessness.

Now in clinical trials, Walter Reed researchers have developed a vaccine that appears to be effective against all strains COVID-19.