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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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Mousemove Events Fire When a Modifier Key Is Pressed
A surprising quirk of the mousemove event is that it gets fired when a modifier key is pressed on the keyboard (once on key down and once on key up).
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Heuristics for Hiring in a New State
Setting up operations in a new state has many requirements and can result in tax obligations.
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Trading Money for Time Is Leverage on Focus
The amount one can do is limited by the number of hours in a day.
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Startups Oscillate Between Operating Ignorance and Normalization
As companies grow their operations become more complex and they must constantly make changes.
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SAFE Note Terms
Most investors use the ‘post-cap’ version of a SAFE note (post-money valuation with cap).
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Information Asymmetry During Fundraising Is a Big Advantage for Investors
Founders that are fundraising for the first time do not know how venture capital works and need to rapidly learn in time to negotiate terms.
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How a Seed Round Works
Companies need to be incorporated and founder stock must be issued before executing a SAFE and taking any investment.
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False Precision
When exact numbers are used to express something that can not be described with exact numbers (e.