While well intentioned, a utilitarian approach to maximizing expected value of the greater good (or minimizing suffering) has unintended side effects.

Knowledge collapse is the paradox where increasing access to certain types of knowledge actually harms understanding.

Business strategy should concisely answer who the most import customers are, how to attract them, and what the entire company must work towards to win that market.

The big orange cones with steam coming out of them in Manhattan are from the leaking network of steam pipes that heat commercial buildings.

A theory of how plants cooperate comes from research of how fungus connects tree roots together into common mycorrhizal networks (CMN).

In a two party system you never want both party A and party B buffering at the same time because it creates artificial delays in the system.

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Between 2008 and 2021, the market was operating under zero-interest rate policy (ZIRP).

I received a one question feature survey from Screen Studio and I thought it was the best survey I have ever received.

When employees lose their sense of agency they start to look outwardly as the source of their problems and solutions.

The parable of the six foot man who drowned in the stream that was five feet on average is a reminder to plan for the possibility of low ends when building a portfolio.

Contempt undermines any rational argument you might make to convince another person of anything.

Productive engineers should write one pull request per day. One pull request per day creates forward momentum.

Interest rates are a technology that allows people to transact across time.

Anthropologist Marilyn Strathern summarized Goodhart’s law most succinctly saying, “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

Author Edward Chancellor neatly summarizes why interest rates are so important, “Interest rates are the price of time.

Astronomers found that Mimas has an ocean underneath it’s surface by observing and modeling it’s orbit.

A study of over 100,000 people in England found that found that cognitive deficits from COVID-19 infection (memory, reasoning and executive function) were similar between those whose symptoms resolved in less than 4 weeks and 12 weeks but were larger in those who had unresolved persistent symptoms (long COVID).

In Money AI Bubble, the author argues that the market is in an AI bubble.

I watched an interview with Susan Rogers, sound engineer for Prince, and she described Prince’s prolific production process.

Institutions end up perpetuating the problems they aim to resolve, either intentionally or unintentionally.

One way to measure product market fit is to look at the time it takes between putting a product out in the market to the first $1MM in ARR.

According to a report by Common Paper of 1,000 businesses, commercial agreements take a median of 3 to 4 days to sign depending on the size of the company.

A collection of benchmarks for B2B businesses (mostly relevant for early-stage SaaS).