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US Workers Are Increasingly Working for Larger Enterprise Companies
The percentage of employees working for enterprise companies (500+ employees) has increased as a percentage of the workforce compared to SMBs.
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The Path From Concept to Product Is an Annealing Process
Curtis Yarvin wrote in a blog post announcing his departure from Urbit, that building a product is like an annealing process.
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Human-Rating Certification for Space Requires 0.2 Percent Probability of Loss
NASA uses a Human-Rating Certification for vehicles transporting a human crew into space.
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How to Lose 10MM Dollars
In a tweetstorm from Andrew Wilkinson about how their task list app Flow was out competed by Asana.
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A Cathedral for Creation a Bazaar for Growth
There are two approaches for creating something of significance, the cathedral and the bazaar.
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Willingness to Pay Should Be at the Core of Product Design
The core thesis of Monetizing Innovation is that product failure is rooted in the failure to put the customer’s willingness to pay at the core of product design.
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Monetizing Innovation
This note does not have a description yet. Links to this note MAP Customer Value Framework
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When You Have the Inspiration, Act Right Away
Inspiration quickly fades and is not enough to sustain a prolonged effort.
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54 Percent of Homes in San Francisco Would Be Illegal to Build Today
Public data from San Francisco revealed disturbing statistics about buildings and homes that show how difficult it is to create new housing.
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Product Design Partner
A product design partner is an early user and potential customer that provides regular organized feedback about your product.
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Robert Moses Was a Failure in the First 5 Years of His Career
In the early years of his career, Robert Moses—with all of his idealism and arrogance—failed to reform the New York City government and improve efficiency as he proposed.
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Robert Moses
This note does not have a description yet. Links to this note Dictator Book Club: Orban
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PEOs Taking Care of Everything Is a Myth
PEO’s often position themselves in the market as a service where you can entrust them to do everything for you.
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Bayes' Theorem
The probability that belief A is true, given new evidence B is equal to the probability of B given A times the probability of A (regardless of B) divided by the probability of B (regardless of A).
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Moroccan Chaabi
A traditional rhythm which is a variation of the Chaabi found in Northern Africa.
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Conventional Wisdom About Spotting a Liar Is Fundamentally Misguided
Conventional ways people (and law enforcement) use to spot a liar is pseudoscience.
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The Dispassionate Developer
Being all consumed by engineering (writing blogs, contributing to open source, giving away your time) is not good because it leads to burnout and perpetuates more people to do the same.
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Bayes Theorem Is a Form of Inductive Reasoning
In Bayes' Theorem, the probability of something occurring is based on probabilities of other parameters of the problem.
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Nearly Half of Employees Are Likely to Move to Work Remotely
A survey by Microsoft found that 41% of employees are considering leaving their current job and 46% say they are likely to move to work remotely.
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Strategy Bugs
Like software bugs, strategy bugs are a failure of understanding of how the real world works and the value your product creates.
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Sistine Chapel of the Ancients
Thousands of Ice Age paintings were discovered in the Amazon rainforest in Colombia which earned the nickname ‘the Sistine Chapel of the ancients’.
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The Pyramid Principle (Literature Notes)
The Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto. Overview Always give the summarizing idea first before the individual ideas that are being summarized.
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Plant-Based Soft Robots
Using plant-based actuators, experiments have shown that we can achieve a limited form of soft robots.
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D3 Is an API for SVGs
D3 is not a visualization library as it is described, but an API to svg and canvas elements.