In an infinite multiverse, where every possibility allowed by physics is certain, the argument goes that one could be absolutely sure of winning the lottery using the following hack.

Anthropologist studying non-industrial societies found that the most common activity was idling—not doing anything.

The Swiss Travel Pass is an all-in-one ticket offered by the SFF for most forms of transportation in Switzerland.

Despite common ancestry between humans and apes, humans have the ability to grow collective knowledge through the replication of memes.

It seems that the best explanations are often the most elegant.

According to recent studies in the UK, Israel, and US, those who are vaccinated have, on average, a 50% lower risk of developing long COVID.

Product development tends to overlook the importance of conjecture. Lean startup and similar ‘lean’ movements create a culture of empiricism—only that which can be measured must be true.

There are several projects that are using WebAssembly to run python in the browser.

It’s a mistake when confusing an abstract process with a real-world process of the same name.

Quantum interference does not affect the behavior of larger more complex objects (like human beings) the way it does for individual elementary particles due to entanglement.

Conventional wisdom says you should do one thing and do it really well.

Building a big B2B business (valued in the billions of dollars) necessitates having customers paying you over $1MM per year for your product.

Having a direct business with a good product and deep relationships with the customer is, on balance, more valuable than an API/channel-driven business.

Pass-through The partner passes along the cost of the service to their customers, sometimes taking a cut of the revenue as a fee.

Tools are something that a business finds familiar. There is a category and a known list of things it should do.

Objective knowledge is possible and it comes from within. Communication is lossy so even precise books and teaching can not transfer objective knowledge.

Once a hex screw is stripped it can be difficult to remove.

Building tooling for transactional emails takes time and in the early days of building a product you’re still figuring out what to build.

After a large uptick in notifications, I’m experimenting with turning off notifications on all devices except one.

Some startups are changing the exercise window for stock options from 90 days to something longer.

Hot iron and cold iron When in opposition, cold iron wins every time.

WebUtils is a browser-only way of converting images between various formats and compressing them using WebAssembly.

A fence is a man made object that takes cost and effort to construct.

We tend to think of money as something tangible and, once you have it, it can be used interchangeably anywhere it’s used for procuring goods and services.