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Linters Automate Quality Control
Using linters on a codebase is a way of automating quality control.
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15 Percent of Adult Americans Own an Early Stage Business
According to GEM 2018 Adult Population Survey, 15.6% of US adults are an owner-manager of an early-stage business.
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We Reduce Anxiety With Activity
When things get challenging or stressful, we attempt to reduce our anxiety by doing things (sometimes anything).
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Keeping React Hooks With UseState in Sync With Props
An annoying footgun with React hooks is using useState with an initial value from props.
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A Sense We Should Be Doing Something Else
Our attention is highly fractured and leads to a constant feeling of restlessness.
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The US Army Developed a Vaccine Effective Against All Variants of COVID-19
Now in clinical trials, Walter Reed researchers have developed a vaccine that appears to be effective against all strains COVID-19.
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Robert Moses Seized Political Power Through the New York State Council of Parks
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.
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Continuous Organizations Don't Make Sense for High Growth Startups
Continous organizations are touted as a way to run a company in a radically transparent way on a blockchain.
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Writing Is Thinking
This note does not have a description yet. Links to this note Writing Makes Ideas Rigid
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Temporary Intellectual Home
Writing an essay is like living in a temporary intellectual home for awhile.
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The Crypto Self-Tenured Class
The growing population of cryptocurrency millionaires have created a new self-tenured class.
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Science Is a War Against Skepticism and Dogmatism
Both skepticism and dogmatism are counter to science. With too much skepticism, nothing can be believed—not even our own senses.
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How to Not Be Rude When Sending a Calendly Link
Some people find it rude to receive a Calendly link when scheduling a meeting.
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Cynicism Is the Opposite of Optimism and Pessimism
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.
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COVID-19 Vaccine Is 33 Percent Effective Against Omicron
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.
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Hypnagogia Improves Creativity
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.
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Counting Words Written in Org-Roam
A simple way to count the number of words written in org-roam notes is to use the following bash script.
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Your Spam Folder Is a Glimpse of What Censorship Free Content Looks Like
Centralized systems are criticized for making unilateral decisions about what people can see and not see within their privately controlled network.
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Speculation Is What Will Make Web3 Mainstream
The unifying desire to make money through speculation is what will make Web3 successful.
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Decentralized Systems Are Most Attractive to Outcasts of Other Systems
One issue with decentralized systems is that, from the onset, such systems are most appealing to outcasts of other systems.
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It's Easier to Make Jokes in Person Than on Zoom
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.
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NYC Mandates Employee Vaccination for Large Employers
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.
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Using Vale With Emacs for Prose Linting
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).
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Decentralized Systems That Work Need Hierarchical Regulation
A commonly cited reason for Web3 is that centralized systems (government, banking) are broken and decentralized systems are the way forward (blockchains, cryptocurrencies).