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.

To implement a ‘jump to random page’ in a static site (like this website) can be done using a template that loads a JavaScript function to redirect the browser.

The US space program led to the first color photographs of the Earth taken from the Moon in 1969.

In Manhattan, I found a Starbucks that was pick-up only and you had to order online.

When in NYC you feel like a different person. It’s also an exciting place to be that makes you feel like a person that does exciting things.

Fetching API data from a component using React requires handling loading, error, auth, and success states.

Obsolete storage formats present two difficult challenges if they are to be preserved.

Thinking in different scales of time reveals problems in our rapid rate of technological progress.

Although it sounds like a truism, working hard is required to do great work.