The Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto. Overview Always give the summarizing idea first before the individual ideas that are being summarized.

Using plant-based actuators, experiments have shown that we can achieve a limited form of soft robots.

D3 is not a visualization library as it is described, but an API to svg and canvas elements.

Antikythera Mechanism is a mechanical model of the positions of celestial bodies.

Vega is a high level charting and visualization library that uses a declarative grammar (a data structure) that is translated into a D3 rendered chart.

We tend to think of supply and demand as curves that companies neatly fit into and move proportionally.

In the early days of a pre-product startup there is little to measure.

An expression for Bayesian thinking where you think in ranges of outcomes based on prior information.

The likelihood that something will continue to be done the same way it was done from the outset.

Scientific research can sometimes suffer from a form of path dependence where a single study can be cited repeatedly for many years even when it is found out to be incorrect.

Common advice from the YC crowd (Paul Graham et al) is to build an initial product that a small group of users love.

A form of music characterized by being made using tracker software such as the original Ultimate Soundtracker on Amiga or more modern Renoise.

Counter to the common advice given by people in Silicon Valley (Paul Graham ‘Startup Mistakes’ for instance), solo founders are more likely to build companies that survive and generate more revenue than multiple founders.

A large amount of the cost (time) of maintaining code is keeping up with breaking changes and incompatability.

California passed legislation that makes it significantly harder to classify workers as independent contractors.

A theoretical tool that checks a piece of business writing against a set of rules from The Minto Pyramid Principle.

We tend to put off happiness—only once this problem is solved or this goal is achieved will I be happy.

Carveth Reed, a British logician and philosopher is attributed with the quote, “It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong” (sometimes attributed to the economist John Maynard Keynes).

Charlie Munger’s first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.

Since gains from bond trading are capped by the yield at maturity, but only returns if the bond pays out, the value generated is not from what you buy but what you exclude, avoiding bonds that don’t pay out I.

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The internet brought digital abundance—content and media can be freely consumed at massive scale.

To get the COVID-19 vaccine approved quickly, companies focused on proving the efficacy.