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Writing Is Like Getting Naked in Public
Writing and sharing it is analogous to walking around naked in public.
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Italian Futurists Tried to Ban Pasta
In 1930, Italian Futurists led by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti declared that pasta should be replaced with futurists foods and in the meantime, rice.
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No Straight Line Hierarchies
When organizing the information architecture for a website of applications, there should be no straight line hierarchies.
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Information Architecture
This note does not have a description yet. Links to this note No Straight Line Hierarchies
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Continuous Integration
This note does not have a description yet. Links to this note Benchmarking Results Can Be Very Different When Run in CI Tools
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Benchmarking Results Can Be Very Different When Run in CI Tools
Most CI (continuous integration) tools run inside VMs in the cloud sometimes nested in other VMs.
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Journalism Is the First Draft of History
News is the first pass at writing down the history of our time.
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Demo Driven Development
Using demos as a way of focusing on specific functionality and elevating quality.
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Creative Selection
This note does not have a description yet. Links to this note Taste Is the Refined Sense of Judgment and Finding Balance That Produces a Pleasing and Integrated Whole
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Topgrading Reduces Mis-Hire Rate
In a study of companies that implemented a topgrading interview methodology, the mis-hire rate fell from 69.
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Schoening's Axe
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.
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Topeka Kansas Estimates a 10x Return on Relocating Remote Workers to Their City
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.
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A Weak Man Argument Recenters a Category to Defeat It
A ‘weak man’ argument presents a belief that only a small number of people have in order to defeat it.
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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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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.