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Lollapalooza Effect
Charlie Munger calls the lollapalooza effect a combination of several elements all acting in concert to create an even greater outcome.
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VO2 Max
A measurement of cardiovascular fitness and endurance by measuring the max oxygen the body can consume during exercise.
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Rich Hickey
Computer scientist and musician that designed the Clojure programming language. Has given many influential talks about functional programming.
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Resting Heart Rate
Beats per minute when not doing any activity. A normal resting heart rate for an adult is ~60 bpm, high resting heart rate (tachycardia) >100 bpm, and low resting heart rate (bradycardia) <60 bpm.
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Clojure
A lisp functional programming language designed by Rich Hickey. The core philosophy is to organize programs around the transformation of values using pure functions and isolated side-effects.
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Building a Note-Taking Habit
Make it obvious: Journaling is the first thing I do in the morning after I take the dogs out.
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Use Lighthouse to Measure Website Performance
Lighthouse is a set of automatic checks performed on a website that measure overall web performance on mobile and desktop.
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Themes Conceptualize a Roadmap
A long list of ships is neither useful nor effective without a way for the team to conceptualize the main ideas and how it adds up to achieving a set of goals.
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Spell Check Test
When designing a review processes within an organization, tease apart the different functions of how the process works then ask which parts are more like ‘spell check’.
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Roadmaps Drive Valuable Discussions
Roadmaps turn strategy into discrete units that will be worked on to accomplish a set of goals.
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Organizational Linter
An automated system that eliminates a class of feedback when reviewing a work product.
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We Find Evidence for Whichever Mindset We Have
We tend to find supporting arguments for the mindset we are in.
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Podcasts Are Programmable Radio
Users choose which podcasts they want to listen to and manually curate them into a listening experience on their own terms.
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Tragedy of the Commons
Shared resources used by individuals with no ownership end up depleting it.
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Recent Technological Advancement Is in Simulation
When comparing recent technological advancement with the previous century, most of the biggest changes are simulation versus physical.
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Adjacent User Theory
Funnel metrics tend to decline with each successive cohorts as a company grows and saturates segments that have strong product market fit.
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Memex Device
A fictional device from the essay As We May Think, written in 1945 by Vannevar Bush, which both stores knowledge (books, notes, annotations, conversations) and connections between them allowing someone to follow trails of associated knowledge.
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Workflows Are More Useful Than Solutions
In our day-to-day lives we use a collection of products and homegrown tools to do our work.
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Conway's Law
A company tends to design systems that mirror their communication structure e.
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85% Rule
When doing an activity that requires peak performance, strive for 85% of what you believe is your best.
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Tools for Networked Thought
Tools that enable connections between ideas and memories help to improve the growth of accumulated knowledge.
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Sword of Damocles
A parable of where Damocles who, after exulting how nice it must be to be king was offered to switch places with the king Dionysius for a day.
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Flesch Reading Ease Test
Determines the grade level required to read a text based on a score of average sentence length and average syllables per word.
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Melissa Dell
Economist and professor at Harvard, winner of the John Bates Clark Medal.