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Share of Remote Workers Fell From 35% to 11%
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported the share of remote workers fell from 35% to 11% from May 2020 to October 2021.
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The Npm Package Ecosystem Is a Chevette
My dad used to tell me about an old car he used to have—the Chevrolet Chevette.
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The Godzilla Speech
The founder of Startmate, who went on to found Australia’s best venture capital firm (Blackbird VC), always gave what he called “the Godzilla speech” to people when they joined.
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OSHA Mandate-or-Test Workplace Vaccine Rule Pushes COVID-19 Prevention Onto Employers
OSHA issued an emergency temporary standard (ETS) that requires large employers (100+ employees) to enforce COVID-19 vaccination and testing.
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High Retention Products Are the Most Viral
Low retention products eventually die, even if they grow really fast to begin with.
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Dictator Book Club: Orban
Dictator Book Club: Orban from Astral Codex Ten describes the rise to power of Viktor Orban, dictator of Hungary.
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Make Twitter Less Annoying With Mute Words
Sometimes there are topics that are triggering, even tweets from people you follow that you genuinely want to see.
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Women Are Better Investors Than Men
An analysis by Fidelity found that women, on average, earn 0.
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The Rise of Worse Is Better
An essay from Richard P. Gabriel that argues that worse tools and solutions can actually be better in some cases.
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Managing a Remote Team Is All About the Outputs
With remote teams, it’s not like you can look over someone’s shoulder or visibly see if they are struggling—the only observable information is the outputs.
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GDP Declined by $181 Billion Due to COBOL
A recent paper analyzed the causal effects of delays in updating unemployment insurance systems written in COBOL.
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Digital Status Symbols Arise From Homogeneity
When everyone gets the same thing, the smallest differences become status symbols.
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Melanzana Micro Grid Fleece Review
The Melanzana Micro Grid fleece is a casual and warm midlayer.
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Living a Rich Digital Life
With so much of our time spent with computers and the internet, we ought to think about the quality of our digital lives.
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Voluntary Disclosure Agreement
A Voluntary Disclosure Agreement is a process in which a company comes clean about not collecting or paying taxes when they should have (usually sales tax and corporate income tax).
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The National Nexus Program Standardizes Voluntary Disclosure Agreements to Pay Back Taxes
Each State has a process administrating a Voluntary Disclosure Agreement to pay back taxes.
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Mark Zuckerberg as Anti-Hero
Current consensus is that Mark Zuckerberg is an evil billionaire. A contrarian view would be this: Zuckerberg is an anti-hero who, in an unprecedented position of power, advances technological progress and well-being.
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What Is a Tech Company
In What Is a Tech Company on Stratechery, a tech company is defined by the following characteristics.
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The Great Resignation
More people in the US have quit their job in 2021 then ever before (since it started being tracked).
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Banned Engineering Words
Depreciate: unless you are building accounting software, you probably mean deprecate.
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Conservatives Justify Morality With Law and Liberals Justify Law With Morality
A confounding aspect of conservative politics is how they view the rule of law.
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Self-Presentation Causes Zoom Fatigue
In an experiment testing the causes of zoom fatigue, researchers found that having the camera on during virtual meetings resulted in fatigue (likely due to self-presentation), not time spent or frequency of meetings.
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Exporting Org-Mode Documents With Many Org-Id Links Is Slow
Exporting org-mode documents using ox is very slow when there are many org-id links in the contents.
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COVID-19 Can Cause Brain Damage and Cause Neurological Symptoms
A paper published in Nature looked at brain autopsies of people that died from COVID-19.