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.

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.

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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.

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.