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.

We’re starting to see news outlets say there is an alarming trend where vaccinated people are getting COVID-19 (such as this one from the WSJ).

The reason you shouldn’t rely on what economists say to make decisions (for example in financial decisions) is because nobody grades an economist.

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Optimism is the most rational viewpoint to have by default. Unlike pessimism or negativity, optimism is helpful even when faked because we find evidence for whichever mindset we have.

A mutation of COVID-19 is spreading quickly throughout the world and threatens recovery efforts.

Jiddu Krishnamurti recounts a story about a man who has in solitude and meditated for 25 years only to recognize that it was a waste.

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When you sell software, the buyer considers whether or not they need more software.

When you are trying to figure out why a particular step in the funnel isn’t working, start by looking at the previous step.

When you sell solutions not software, you need to be as concrete as possible about the buyer’s use case so you can describe your solutions in the same terms they use to evaluate it.

Grammarly improves the overall level of communication within an organization, but if you think of it as an organizational linter it does much more.

Immanual Kant states that between instinct and culture is wildness. It is in mankind’s nature to be raw and wild so we find ways to cover up this wildness through culture—a collective set of customs, art, and achievements.

In discussing market changes, Howard Marks, remarks that psychology overwhelms fundamentals in the short run as the reason why markets can appear irrational.

An object that is rotating on it’s intermediate axis is unstable.

It takes effort to make decisions and when confronted with numerous decisions to make, people get fatigued.

Al Smith was a poor Irish-American who grew up in the Fourth Ward of New York City (Lower East Side).