With so much emphasis on productivity these days, an underappreciated problem is work avoidance—not doing what you should be doing because you are doing something else.

An easy way to display a PDF preview in the browser is to use an iframe and set the src to a link to the file.

A clock is base 12 (a 12 hour clock) and base 60 (an hour contains 60 minutes).

Meeting an investor for the first time and trying to get them to invest immediately is difficult.

For new knowledge to be created, there needs to be an error correcting mechanism.

Founders that are willing to take on problem areas that are unappealing because it seems like a lot of work is a moat.

A Pew Research Center Survey found that 61% of remote workers who have a company office say it’s their choice not to work from there.

When joining a new team, a common piece of advice is to “gain credibility” by doing undesirable tasks others don’t want to do.

Visionaries pushing some form of utopia are defined by their pessimism.

We do not yet know what we have not discovered and trying to know the unknowable (prophesy) leads to pessimism.

A good churn rate for a B2B company serving small and medium businesses (SMB) and mid-market businesses (< 1000 employees) is 2.

You can spot bad explanations similar to the way you can spot bad arguments using the Münchhausen trilemma.

All problems are soluble with the right knowledge. That doesn’t mean we know the solution already, but that the pursuit of good explanations will lead to progress towards one.

The essence of problems is when two ideas come into conflict with each other.

There’s a Finnish saying that the “dogs are barking but the train keeps going” meaning that people will always be talking about you but it doesn’t matter.

Knowledge and technology go hand-in-hand but they should not be confused for each other.

Techno-optimists believe technology can solve the world’s most pressing problems. With the right knowledge, we can find solutions to climate change like abundant clean energy.

It can be difficult to empathize with others without direct experience.

As products and services become commoditized, distribution and companies that help distribution become more important.

The user is complaining that our boat is leaking through the windows, it’s unstable, and too slow.

In a thought experiment from The Beginning of Infinity, the author introduces a universe traveling device.

The Turing-test is rooted in the idea that a human can judge whether something is an Artificial Intelligence merely by the behaviors it exhibits during the test.

Many people don’t find compliance to be a particularly interesting area to work on.

Computers can be programmed to do anything a model of computation can express.