Repeated information is perceived to be more truthful than new information. Prior knowledge does not reduce the significance of the effect. Basically the more someone repeats something the more it will be believed. See also:
Faster is more productive because it is a multiplier on tasks you spend a lot of time doing (thinking, writing, typing, debugging). Being faster takes practice and most people don’t try to improve. The way to be efficient in many problems is to be smarter. Counter-intuitively, being faster helps you learn faster and have better thoughts. Read Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity From Dan Luu. See also:
It’s common in product and engineering circles to constantly ask people “what problem are you solving?” While this can be useful for focusing work on the right things, it also leads to solutions disguised as problem statements and self-referential arguments. Instead, ask “what’s the situation?”. This gives space between facts and the interpretation of those facts which makes it easier to understand and spot errors. See also:
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. I thought it was primarily eye candy, it’s useful for 1) spotting connections you haven’t already made and 2) identifying orphaned notes that could be linked to other notes. By looking at a subgraph and increasing the number of neighbor nodes rendered you can see Nth degree connections to a note. This is handy for linking related notes together or simply to think about the through-line that brings seemingly disparate ideas together. By looking at the edges of the overall graph, it’s easy to spot orphaned notes that don’t connect to anything. These are worth revisiting and linking them or maybe deleting. See also:
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The list of ways wealth is created is remarkably short. You can Read A catalog of wealth-creation mechanisms from Rondam Ramblings. See also:
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 3.69% in Q4 2019 to 14.67% in Q3 2021. See also:
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A team of engineers working together on the same project should divide up their work at the contractual boundaries. This avoids rework because choosing an arbitrary point to split up the work can be difficult to specify and more susceptible to breaking changes introduced by the other team members. A simple example is dividing work up by frontend and backend where the API serves as a contractual boundary. It’s simple to understand which work each person is responsible for and results in less rework. (It’s still important to specify the API contact, but you can be more hand-wavy about the rest).
The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that 4.3 MM Americans quit their jobs in August 2021, up from 4MM in July. The quit rate is highest it’s been since the statistic became available in 2000. Most of the workers quitting worked in the food services industry and hospitality (892,000), retail (721,000), professional business services (706,000) and health care and social assistance (534,000). See also:
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. This seems to explain some of the symptoms like loss of smell and taste (associated with the olfactory bulb) as well as other side effects like memory loss. See also:
The way to prevent a bar from turning into a Nazi bar is by nipping it in the bud. You need to ignore their reasonable sounding arguments in the moment because their end goals are so terrible. For example, the first Nazi in the bar who is nice to everyone who is getting kicked out might say, “Hey I’m not doing anything wrong!”. However, if you don’t do that, they bring their friends, and friends of friends, and eventually you end up being a Nazi bar. Online communities function similarly—the moment you let them in the sooner you become a bastion of hate. Read the Twitter thread.
A study found that US adults experienced significantly more depressive symptoms in 2021 (32.8%) compared to the early months of the pandemic (27.8%) and before the pandemic (8.5%). Predictors of pandemic depression include low household income, not being married, and pandemic-related stressors. See also:
A recent analysis from Crunchbase looked at venture-backed tech companies that went public in the last 8 months found the value increased from $1-4MM per employee to $10+MM per employee. This begs the question, are we getting more efficient or are public investors valuing tech stocks at a near 10x multiple to maintain their returns? Read Tech Staff Sizes Still Aren’t Rising Much, But Valuations Sure Are. See also:
When something is below average to an unacceptable amount. In baseball, the Mendoza line is hitting .200 and anything below that is considered quite poor. See also:
There are a few ways to get linting of prose (grammar and style, not just spellcheck) in Emacs. Unfortunately, there is no good language server implementation for the popular open-source command line tools. The best option right now is probably See also:proselint, but vale gives better suggestions.
Library
Language server?
Emacs package
Notes
Vale
Kind of
flycheck-vale
Seems like a good alternative for Grammarly-like linting, emacs package is out-of-date
Proselint
No
flymake-proselint
LanguageTool
Maybe later
flycheck-languagetool flymake-languagetool emacs-langtool
Requires java, poor performance when using cli
write-good
No
None
Textlint
No
flycheck (built-in support)
Grammarly
Kind of
None
Grammarly API is going away in January 2024
I tend to work hard and take my work seriously. When things aren’t working exactly as planned, I take it personally. When the work is difficult I internalize it and it becomes more difficult. Someone much wiser said to me, “you can be ambitious and work really hard, but what if you could take the struggle out of it?”. Beating yourself up provides no advantage. Being kind to yourself doesn’t make you less ambitious. You can be high-performing without all the struggle. See also:
The 10-year treasury bond is a benchmark for investors and recently signals the end of Fed stimulus efforts. When bond yields rise tech stock prices fall because bonds are lower risk and tech stocks are expensive for their respective returns. See also:
Using TypeScript with Install the Install the Add the plugin to your config’s In See also:eglot in Emacs is fiddly to set up. I also prefer using eslint as a plugin to typescript-language-server so no other setup is required. Together, this makes for an extremely portable setup with minimal fuss which is the whole point of the language server protocol to begin with.typescript-language-server:npm install -g typescript-language-server
eslint plugin for typescript-language-server:npm install typescript-eslint-language-service -D
compilerOptions:{...
"compilerOptions": {
"plugins": [{
"name": "typescript-eslint-language-service"
}]
...
}
}
init.el, tell eglot how to locate your tsconfig.json (otherwise your TypeScript project configuration won’t be picked up and eslint won’t work):;; I'm not sure why this is needed, but it throws an error if I remove it
(cl-defmethod project-root ((project (head eglot-project)))
(cdr project))
(defun my-project-try-tsconfig-json (dir)
(when-let* ((found (locate-dominating-file dir "tsconfig.json")))
(cons 'eglot-project found)))
(add-hook 'project-find-functions
'my-project-try-tsconfig-json nil nil)
(add-to-list 'eglot-server-programs
'((typescript-mode) "typescript-language-server" "--stdio"))
The removal of the average weak tie does more damage than the removal of the average strong tie when it comes to diffusion of information in a social network. Often the shortest and only connection between different nodes in social network are weak ties. Consider a rumor being spread only among a group of close friends (strong ties). It would invariably be heard multiple times from different close friends. Compare that to a rumor spread only through acquaintances (weak ties), it will spread much further because acquaintances act as bridges between groups that wouldn’t have been connected otherwise. See also:
Most package managers have some form of a lockfile which freezes the exact version of a installed libraries. This makes building the environment again reproducible (with some big caveats around system libraries) so you won’t suddenly encounter a breaking change from an upstream library or dependence changing from yesterday to today. Lockfiles don’t fix the problem of breaking changes, but it allows you to choose when you have to deal with it (at upgrade time).
Typing on a mechanical keyboard is like writing with a fountain pen. It’s completely unnecessary (many alternatives are good enough), but lends itself to a much more pleasing experience. As such, switching to a mechanical keyboard is an underrated way to improve productivity. See also:
Wokeism is a cultural export. Nearly every country now has a woke movement that seeks to right a wrong, argues that people should be sensitive to it, and purge wrongdoers. While some (like the French) see wokeism as a means to spread American influence, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. If the world ends up caring more about women’s rights and black lives that’s a good thing. Read Why Wokeism Will Rule the World by Tyler Cowen See also: