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Ads Work via Cultural Imprinting
Ads don’t work by creating a Pavlovian response through association (emotional inception), they work through changing the cultural landscape around us (cultural imprinting).
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To Set Up a Virtual Address You Need to Fill Out USPS Form 1583
When using a virtual physical address like Earth Class Mail for business purposes, you need to fill out USPS Form 1583 and have it notarized which requires two forms of government ID.
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Two-Thirds of Remote Workers Want to Continue to Work Remotely
A Gallup poll with data from September indicate that two-thirds of remote workers want to keep working remotely.
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Libraries Provide, Applications Consume
In software development, a simple framework to keep in mind that clarifies how to write certain code is that libraries provide and applications consume.
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Seed Funding Has Declined 27% in 2020
The number of companies raising a seed round of funding declined from 2019 to 2020 by 27%.
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Doughnut Economic Model
A visualization of sustainability represented by concentric rings (hence the doughnut).
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Don't Use Deductive Arguments to Connect Key Lines, Use Inductive
Connecting key lines in a document is important to answer the key question and provide clear reasoning.
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Documentation Is Automation
Completing a tasks, documenting the problem and what you did to solve it serves as a kind of automation for the future.
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Olbers' Paradox
If the universe is infinite and there are an infinite number of stars then every point in the sky should be a star.
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Baumol Effect
Salaries rise in response to other salaries rising in jobs that experience productivity gains.
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Pareto Optimal
Occurs when one party’s position can not be improved without loss to the other party.
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Never Write Sections of a Document as Categories
Categories are not a useful way of demarcating sections in a document because they don’t support the structure of answering the key question of the document.
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Ideas to Support a Key Line Should Be Inductive or Deductive
When forming a horizontal relationship between ideas (e.g. supporting sentences of a summary statement), they should form an inductive or deductive argument.
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The Pyramid Principle
ISBN-13: 978-0273710516 Links to this note How to Write More
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Reading Is the Transformation of a Linked List of Ideas Into a Tree
We can only read one sentence at a time, but the resulting information received is tree-shaped.
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Always Give the Summarizing Idea First
To have clear writing, always give the summarizing idea first, before the individual ideas that are being summarized.
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Conceptual Integrity
As mentioned in The Mythical Man Month, good system design (user friendly) requires a small (ideally singular) team of architects, separated from implementation, that decide what goes into the system and what stays out.
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The Stock Market Boom During the Pandemic Is Due to Increased Savings
Personal income was higher, lost wages were offset by unemployment benefits and stimulus programs.
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Writing Essays From a Zettelkasten Outline Is Much Faster
When writing essays, starting from an outline of Zettelkasten notes makes it much easier and faster to write.
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§ What I Learned 2020
Personal COVID-19 Deaths per day in the US due to COVID-19 is more than twice that of WWII COVID-19 is a vehicle of fantasmic projection american values are incompatible with managing the epidemic structural racism substituted economics for racisom stress and anxiety are cumulative zoom fatigue My morning practice Personal note taking practice Reflections on writing 500 notes https://www.
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Consumers Buy Products, Enterprises Buy Platforms
The buying behavior of consumers versus enterprises can be characterized by the difference between products and platforms.
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Trailing Tax Liability
When employees move around they generate trailing tax liabilities for the time spent in a particular jurisdiction.
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Measure Progress Rather Than Outcomes
When you are feeling overwhelmed by something you are working on, measure the progress you are making rather than the final outcome.
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Back Office
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