This is a quote attributed to David Wheeler, an early computer scientist who also invented subroutines among other things.

A counter response to the growing sprawl of technologies that argues boring technology (tried and true, more mature) is far more effective than the latest shiny tool that gets popular on HackerNews.

Writing and sharing it is analogous to walking around naked in public.

An administrative services organization (ASO) is an outsourcing provider for HR related administrative work.

In 1930, Italian Futurists led by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti declared that pasta should be replaced with futurists foods and in the meantime, rice.

When organizing the information architecture for a website of applications, there should be no straight line hierarchies.

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Most CI (continuous integration) tools run inside VMs in the cloud sometimes nested in other VMs.

News is the first pass at writing down the history of our time.

Using demos as a way of focusing on specific functionality and elevating quality.

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In a study of companies that implemented a topgrading interview methodology, the mis-hire rate fell from 69.

On the ascent to K2 in 1953, Pete Schoening saved the lives of five members of the expedition by stopping the fall using his ice axe to wedge against a bolder along the mountain.

The city of Topeka, Kansas estimates 10x in annual tax revenue for every $5k they spend in incentives to relocate high paying remote workers to their city.

A ‘weak man’ argument presents a belief that only a small number of people have in order to defeat it.

Ads don’t work by creating a Pavlovian response through association (emotional inception), they work through changing the cultural landscape around us (cultural imprinting).

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.

A Gallup poll with data from September indicate that two-thirds of remote workers want to keep working remotely.

In software development, a simple framework to keep in mind that clarifies how to write certain code is that libraries provide and applications consume.

The number of companies raising a seed round of funding declined from 2019 to 2020 by 27%.

A visualization of sustainability represented by concentric rings (hence the doughnut).

Connecting key lines in a document is important to answer the key question and provide clear reasoning.

Completing a tasks, documenting the problem and what you did to solve it serves as a kind of automation for the future.