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.

When something is below average to an unacceptable amount. In baseball, the Mendoza line is hitting .

There are a few ways to get linting of prose (grammar and style, not just spellcheck) in Emacs.

I tend to work hard and take my work seriously. When things aren’t working exactly as planned, I take it personally.

The 10-year treasury bond is a benchmark for investors and recently signals the end of Fed stimulus efforts.

Using TypeScript with eglot in Emacs is fiddly to set up.

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.

Most package managers have some form of a lockfile which freezes the exact version of a installed libraries.

Typing on a mechanical keyboard is like writing with a fountain pen.

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.

Rather than spend months building an MVP, which might not work, you can test a startup idea incrementally.

Public APIs are default closed due to security and abuse concerns.

Hyperlinks are a reliable way of connecting content together. However, they are not a solid foundation for distributed knowledge that can be added to over time.

In The trouble with capitalism, Edward Feser argues that the moral failings of today’s capitalism is caused by fixation on wealth.

A paper published in Nature on Sept 9, 2021 that studies the effects of shifting from office work to remote work at Microsoft.

A study that analyzed anonymized employee-level (email, calendar, etc.) found that the sudden shift from the office to remote work resulted in a silo’ing effect—employees spent more time with strong ties and less time with weak ties from December 2019 to June 2020.

A hapax logomenon (“being said once” in Greek) is a word that only appears once in the written record of a language, author, or single text.

Given two people and a set of all persons with ties to either of them, the stronger the tie between the two people the more overlap exists between their friendship circles.

When it comes to network diffusion of information or influence, all bridges (a line in a network graph that represents the only connection between two points) are weak ties.

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A study of a global manufacturing firm found that scientists and engineers who often walked by one another in the office were significantly more likely to end up collaborating at the beginning of projects.

Remote work naturally leads to more communication with people you collaborate with regularly.

When the primary means of collaboration is asynchronous (as is the case of remote work), the rules and norms of a remote team need to be more deliberate.

To make emacs more modern looking in v26, you can enable a “natural title bar” (the color of title bar matches the color of the buffer).