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

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.

If the universe is infinite and there are an infinite number of stars then every point in the sky should be a star.

Salaries rise in response to other salaries rising in jobs that experience productivity gains.

Occurs when one party’s position can not be improved without loss to the other party.

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.

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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We can only read one sentence at a time, but the resulting information received is tree-shaped.

To have clear writing, always give the summarizing idea first, before the individual ideas that are being summarized.

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.

Personal income was higher, lost wages were offset by unemployment benefits and stimulus programs.

When writing essays, starting from an outline of Zettelkasten notes makes it much easier and faster to write.