If you’ve ever accidentally deleted something from a file and want to recover it using git you can search the full history for a string.

When building systems that require monitoring and alerting, a false alarm should be treated as a bug.

Being able to lead a project that coordinate multiple people, teams, and organizations is critical for career development.

Questions naturally arise when writing. Since writing is thinking, when we turn over an idea in our head, we can’t help spotting things we don’t understand or finding a topic we want to learn more about.

It should be repeatable, measurable, and profitable. Every product and business is different.

Chess players burn a lot of calories at the highest levels of competitive chess tournaments.

Before COVID-19, the majority of B2B selling happened in-person and over email and phone calls (61%).

An overlooked part of understanding information and not merely memorizing it, is to elaborate on the meaning of something you just learned.

The prevailing industry of the last century was the industry of atoms—physical infrastructure, extraction of natural resources, and moving things around faster.

The essay Capitalism is dead: long live Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek Minister of Finance, describes how advancements in technology killed what we used to call capitalism and replaced it, unwittingly, with a form of feudalism.

My hunt for a mobile setup for org-roam continues. LogSeq doesn’t handle org IDs.

What is product/market fit? Pull not push A common definition of product/market fit is that the business feels “pull” from customers as demand increases, sales are quicker, and adoption is faster.

Open tasks occupy short-term memory until they are done. It’s distracting to have so many open tasks because it’s natural to keep thinking about them.

GTM decomposes into the entire business—it all must work in concert to be effective.

Anytime you put a task in a queue (a todo list, a backlog, a ticket, etc.

The two most important parts of a personal productivity system that I’ve learned are capturing and refiling.

Venture capitalist Bill Gurley, when talking about losses reminds people that a fund can lose it’s money 1x on a failed investment in a business that goes under but can miss out 10,000x if they fail to invest in a big winner.

Bill Gurley, GP of Benchmark Capital said, “The best ways to protect against the downside is to enjoy every minute of the upside.

Bill Parcells, when prompted to defend himself after his first season as the Giants head coach going 3-12 said, “You are what your record says you are.

When coming up with goals for your business, it’s a disservice to adjust it down to make everyone—employees, investors, yourself—feel better.

Being offended and caring what others think about you go hand in hand.

If you don’t answer a message in a timely manner, the other person has to assume either you haven’t received it or you chose not to respond.

In the latest Startup Compensation report from Carta based on 3,000 venture-backed companies, 60% of new hires at startups are out-of-state.

Data from the World Values Survey suggests the population of high-income countries is getting more zero-sum in mindset.