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List of places that will pay you to move and work remotely:

Using a fingerprint as authentication is trivial to break using a picture of fingerprint, some acetate, and wood glue.

The Millenium Tower in downtown SF is sinking. Before it’s completing, the concrete skyscraper had already sunk 16 inches—building code allows for 6 inches of sinkage.

Values of a community or organization are embedded in every UI decision.

Emacs is not a great text editor in and of itself—it’s a building material for the best text editor you can make for yourself.

Baboons are really good at finding water. Baboons also really love salt.

Some people argue that there is no such thing as “good taste” in art.

Good taste is a closeness between what you perceive as power vs what is power, independent of who is observing it.

A sales narrative is a cohesive story that explains why customers need your product.

There was a meme in on Twitter that you should unfollow VCs and follow artists.

When things are going poorly it feels like you are pushing your users.

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The term “creator economy” and the lexicon around it has broad appeal—who doesn’t want to be a “creator” or a “builder”?

A good analogy might be graduating from university and getting your first job.

GitHub powered (Commentor needs to oauth GitHub to comment) Utterances uses GitHub issues Gitalk uses GitHub issues Giscus uses GitHub discussions

A group of pioneers taking the Oregon Trail to California in 1847 became trapped in the Sierras due to snow storms.

One can think of depression and anxiety as two ends of a spectrum.

Crypto is a hotbed of scams, but we shouldn’t be so surprised.

I’m an optimist with anxiety—constantly fretting about the future, but optimistic that it will work out fine.

Driving word of mouth needed for product-led growth comes from a passion for one’s tools.

The notion that “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world” (Ludwig Wittgenstein) is only partially true.

Right now my personal note taking practice is mostly structured text with a few conventions, published as a really long list.

A trait of digital gardening is to include metadata in a post to indicate how confident the author is in the post.