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.

Although Robert Moses began his career as an idealistic reformer, he wrote a bill that gave himself far-reaching powers through the New York State Council of Parks and the Long Island Park Commission.

Continous organizations are touted as a way to run a company in a radically transparent way on a blockchain.

This note does not have a description yet. Links to this note Motivation for Taking Notes Comes from the Output

Writing an essay is like living in a temporary intellectual home for awhile.

The growing population of cryptocurrency millionaires have created a new self-tenured class.

Both skepticism and dogmatism are counter to science. With too much skepticism, nothing can be believed—not even our own senses.

Some people find it rude to receive a Calendly link when scheduling a meeting.

Cynics believe that nothing ever changes at a fundamental level. By it’s nature, cynicism is a dead end where everything stays the same over time.

A study of 211,000 COVID-19 cases and 78,000 Omicron variant cases found that the vaccine is only 33% effective at preventing infection by 70% effective at preventing hospitalization.

Hypnagogia briefly occurs between wakefulness and sleep. A hypnagogic state can be achieved by purposefully waking yourself during this period and can result in a heightened state of creativity.

A simple way to count the number of words written in org-roam notes is to use the following bash script.

Centralized systems are criticized for making unilateral decisions about what people can see and not see within their privately controlled network.

The unifying desire to make money through speculation is what will make Web3 successful.

One issue with decentralized systems is that, from the onset, such systems are most appealing to outcasts of other systems.

After meeting in person with my teammates for work, I realized it’s far easier to joke around and riff in person rather than on Zoom.

In anticipation of a wave of cases due to the COVID-19 omicron variant, NYC requires private employers with 100 or more employees to mandate vaccination for in-person workers.

After looking into linting prose in Emacs, I found a way to roll your own prose linter setup using vale (an extensible prose linter), efm-langserver (a generic language server), and eglot (a language server mode for Emacs).

The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman. Links to this note Continuous Organizations Don’t Make Sense for High Growth Startups

Some of the downsides of informal structures in an unstructured group are:

When rules are implicit, only those who know how decisions are made can participate.

An elite individual is an oxymoron. The nature of an elite is membership to a group that exhibits informal influence or control over a larger group.

A commonly cited reason for Web3 is that centralized systems (government, banking) are broken and decentralized systems are the way forward (blockchains, cryptocurrencies).