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.

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.

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.

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.

My dad used to tell me about an old car he used to have—the Chevrolet Chevette.

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.

OSHA issued an emergency temporary standard (ETS) that requires large employers (100+ employees) to enforce COVID-19 vaccination and testing.

Low retention products eventually die, even if they grow really fast to begin with.

Dictator Book Club: Orban from Astral Codex Ten describes the rise to power of Viktor Orban, dictator of Hungary.

Sometimes there are topics that are triggering, even tweets from people you follow that you genuinely want to see.

An analysis by Fidelity found that women, on average, earn 0.

An essay from Richard P. Gabriel that argues that worse tools and solutions can actually be better in some cases.

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.

A recent paper analyzed the causal effects of delays in updating unemployment insurance systems written in COBOL.

When everyone gets the same thing, the smallest differences become status symbols.

The Melanzana Micro Grid fleece is a casual and warm midlayer.

With so much of our time spent with computers and the internet, we ought to think about the quality of our digital lives.

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).

Each State has a process administrating a Voluntary Disclosure Agreement to pay back taxes.

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.