• Kelly Criterion

    A formula for figuring out how much you should bet to maximize the outcome.

  • Techniques for Dealing With Skepticism

    Skepticism when building something new occurs in two ways 1) personally (worry of building something that is not good, failing) and 2) externally (others telling you your idea is bad or that your implementation sucks).

  • Paul Graham

    Former founder, lisp hacker, writer, who started Y Combinator. His views on startups and venture capital have heavily influenced the startup zeitgeist.

  • Naval Ravikant

    Founder of AngelList and investor, Naval is known for his advice and philosophy on startups and life.

  • JavaScript Text Editors for Markdown

    Below is a list of JavasScript libraries that support markdown. Static content can be syntax highlighted using libraries with a much smaller footprint, but editing text with syntax highlighting takes significantly more code.

  • Axioms of Note Taking

    You won’t remember if you don’t write it down You won’t write it down if it’s difficult to capture immediately You won’t accumulate knowledge if you don’t consistently and frequently add to it You won’t find value if you don’t reference it Thinking out loud (I.

  • Will-to-Life

    Arthur Schopenhauer describes the will-to-life as the inherent driving force behind all human beings to stay alive and reproduce.

  • High-Control Group

    Characteristics of a cult that include opposition of critical thought, self-doubt is encouraged, leaders have supreme knowledge who are not accountable to anyone, information is tightly controlled, members are isolated from former lives, zealous commitment, ostracizing members who leave, controlling what you eat or drink, exploitation (financial, sexual), and deception as a means of control.

  • Arthur Schopenhauer

    German philosopher and pessimist, best known for ‘The World as Will and Representation’ where he describes the will-to-life as the overriding force that compels humans and leads to suffering.

  • TypeScript

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  • Responsive Web Layout Using Vars

    You can use CSS vars to create responsive layouts. One technique called css-media-vars (repo) is a sort of mixin for CSS selectors that have the effect of named breakpoints analogous to a media query, but with much less boilerplate.

  • Immanual Kant

    A philosopher from the age of enlightenment, Kant is best known for writings about morality and the categorical imperative.

  • Categorical Imperative

    Immanual Kant, in his book Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, argues for a universal imperative that we should treat people as the ends rather than the means.

  • Trump Paradox

    The media tends to focus on the amount of lying that President Trump does–you can often find headlines that quantify it to some large number.

  • Methods of Product Ideation

    There are four kinds of product ideation that can be thought of along two axis, organic vs inorganic and bottom-up vs top-down.