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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.
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The Metaverse Is the Ultimate Company Town
The reason the metaverse concept is so appealing to corporations is that it’s a vision for the ultimate company town.
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Metaverse
This note does not have a description yet. Links to this note Nfts Provide Digital Scarcity Among Digital Abundance
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Use the Narcissist's Prayer to Spot a Narcissist
The Narcissist’s Prayer by an unknown author, perfectly describes their progression.
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Illusory Truth Effect
Repeated information is perceived to be more truthful than new information.
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Work Faster Not Smarter
Faster is more productive because it is a multiplier on tasks you spend a lot of time doing (thinking, writing, typing, debugging).
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Don't Ask What the Problem Is, Ask What the Situation Is
It’s common in product and engineering circles to constantly ask people “what problem are you solving?
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Org-Roam-Ui Helps You Peer Into Your Brain
The org-roam-ui is a visualization and exploration companion to org-roam. The force-directed graph of notes (nodes) and links (edges) shows how concepts fit together and relate.
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Game Theory
This note does not have a description yet. Links to this note Kelly Criterion
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Engineering Management
This note does not have a description yet. Links to this note Taste Is the Refined Sense of Judgment and Finding Balance That Produces a Pleasing and Integrated Whole
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Wealth-Creation Mechanisms Are Simple
The list of ways wealth is created is remarkably short.
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Remote Jobs Rose to Nearly 15 Percent of All High-Paying Job Listings
An analysis by Ladders found that the percentage of high-paying job listings ($80,000+) in the US and Canada that were remote increased from 3.
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Product-Led Growth
This note does not have a description yet. Links to this note Get Started With Growth Marketing
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Collaborate at the Contractual Boundaries
A team of engineers working together on the same project should divide up their work at the contractual boundaries.
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4.3 Million People Quit Their Job in August 2021
The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that 4.3 MM Americans quit their jobs in August 2021, up from 4MM in July.
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COVID-19 Infection Reduces Grey Matter Thickness in Parts of the Brain
A preliminary study of brain imaging taken of before COVID-19 infection and after showed a reduced amount of gray matter thickness in the frontal and temporal lobes.
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Nazi Bar Theory
The way to prevent a bar from turning into a Nazi bar is by nipping it in the bud.
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The Rate of Depressive Symptoms in US Adults Quadrupled During the Pandemic
A study found that US adults experienced significantly more depressive symptoms in 2021 (32.