Macro forecasting is an area where it is easy to be as right as the consensus, but very hard to be more right.

A time crystal is a repeating pattern in the time dimensions which breaks symmetry with the law of conservation of energy.

Remote work seems like a natural extension of death-cult politicians to rail against remote work like they did against masks and vaccinations.

There is every evidence that intelligence can be embodied materially. Our intelligence and mind comes from matter.

Having ‘good taste’ is difficult to define. Taste is subjective, it is only confirmed by assent from others (from Immanual Kant) a kind of determinate negation.

Steve Jobs was quoted as saying “Design is how it works.

Because the COVID-19 Delta variant is much more transmissible (translating to a higher R rate of 50-100% higher than a year ago) and mRNA vaccines are 90% effective, we need 90% of the population to be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity.

In sales, the difference between hitting your numbers and not has more to do with the volume of your top of the funnel than anything else.

In 2019, Americans spent an average of 55.2 minutes per day commuting.

Using codespaces, you can open a web-based VSCode session, open a terminal and install emacs.

Product engineers solve user problems, but why are there so few of them?

SQLite doesn’t have a FIND_IN_SET operator to test whether or not a string exists in set value.

In org-roam v2, a new requirement was added for all notes to have an org ID.

Professional employer organizations rely on co-employment to share responsibilities with their customers.

SUTA dumping is fraudulent arbitrage of State Unemployment Tax where fraud-y PEOs put employees from high insurance rate companies into a new entity with a low insurance rate and pocketed the difference.

PEOs charge between 2-7% of the dollar volume of the payroll for their services (more for GEOs) generating revenue between $1,200 per employee per year up to $4,000 (source: JP Morgan).

Employee leasing was started in the 1960s and is a predecessor to professional employer organizations (PEO).

A global employment organization (GEO) is an employer of record that is used to hire employees outside of the client’s country.

While government tends to be short-term oriented (the election cycle drives decisions so officials can be re-elected), an area the do feel comfortable thinking long term is infrastructure.

Notion has limited support for counting rows in a table using rollups.

Learning is composed of two elements: surprise and memory. If you go about life and nothing is surprising then you wouldn’t have anything new to learn.

To summarize the difference in mindset between the two places—San Francisco is living in the future and New York City is living in the present.

Our senses are attuned to things that change quickly (like the lottery), but this causes us to miss what is actually going on (gambling means losing).

Organizations tend to set up their engineering organization in one of two ways.