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Remove Low-Velocity Work to Improve Overall Velocity
In Double your productivity without more work or stress, the author makes the argument that the way to increase overall velocity is to decrease the amount of low-velocity periods of work.
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The Stock Market Is More Volatile Than the Businesses Listed
The annual percentage changes of the stock market go up and down more than the actual businesses in it.
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Time Since Requested Does Not Increase Importance
We can’t go back in time so the only thing that can provide value is in the present and future.
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Value Goes to Zero as Time Approaches Infinity
The longer something takes to deliver value, the less valuable it is.
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People Dont Want More They Want Better
Today there is an abundance of everything. Shows to watch. Content to read.
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Differences Between California and New York
Some anecdotes as I readjust to life on the east coast.
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Enshittification
The product or service in which, value goes to users first and then, upon capturing a mass audience of users, provides values to suppliers.
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AI Agent
An AI agent is an intent-based abstraction that combines LLMs to plan and take action in order produce a desired goal.
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AI Employees
Several startups are touting AI employees that you can hire to perform a specific function.
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I Was a Non-Technical Product Manager Once
A common question in product management that always seems to come up is some flavor of: should product managers be technical?
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Alex Hormozi - 13 Years of Brutally Honest Business Advice Notes
Notes on the video 13 Years of Brutally Honest Business Advice.
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Writing Makes Ideas Rigid
Writing is like taking an idea and turning it into a rigid object.
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Professional Services Spend Is Double Software Spend
According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the contribution to US GDP in Q1 2024 of professional services industries was more than double that of information industries (which includes softare publishing).
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Using Org-Roam as a CRM
Using org-mode and org-roam can make a rudimentary CRM system for logging interactions with people, companies, or any other contact.
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Abstractions Save Time Working, but Not Learning
Software abstractions save us time doing work by not having to write programs from lower level building blocks.
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Box Centered Does Not Equal Visually Centered
A problem that crops up often in web design is centering.
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Async Work Is Doing More Things in Parallel but Slower
Working asynchronously is an important reason why remote teams work. However, it can devolve into anti-patterns.
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UI Requires Deductive Reasoning
Using a UI is a form of deductive reasoning that takes effort.
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Low Bitrate Audio Codec
Low bitrate audio codecs are primarily used for downscaling audio for slower internet connection speeds and supporting older devices.
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Using AI Tools at Work
I recently shared some observations about trying to use generative AI tools at work and shared the experience on LinkedIn.
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Anxiety Doesn't Give You an Edge
I hear it often enough that it seems like a commonly held belief that anxiety somehow improves performance at work and gives one an edge.
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How to Measure the Health of a Startup
Here are the most useful metrics I’ve found for running a startup.
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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
This note does not have a description yet. Links to this note Graphrag Combines Knowledge Graphs With Retrieval
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LLM Latency Is Output-Size Bound
As it stands today, LLM applications have noticeable latency but much of the latency is output-size bound rather than input-size bound.