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Integrating Between AWS Services Adds Incidental Complexity
When using multiple AWS services together new problems emerge—IAM permissions and roles, configuration, and load-bearing quirks.
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Habit Stacking
Using an established habit as a cue for initiating another habit.
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A Data Dividend Law Would Undermine Privacy and Encourage Acceptance of Exploitative Behavior
In order to share some of the captured value from data collection, a monetary value would need to be determined.
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Workaround for Mapping AWS Cognito Identity ID to Username
There is a longstanding issue where there is no way to go from an AWS Cognito identity ID to a username.
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Wilderness Survival Rules of 3
You can only survive for three minutes without air, three hours without shelter (in harsh environments), three days without water, and three weeks without food.
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Websites With a Bounce Rate of 70 Percent or Higher Should Not Be Doing SEO
A web property that has a high bounce rate (70% or higher) will not be successful in search engine optimization because Google will down rank content.
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Understanding SEO
This note does not have a description yet. Links to this note Websites With a Bounce Rate of 70 Percent or Higher Should Not Be Doing SEO
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Truncating Text Is Complicated
To truncate text in a way that looks good and retains substances is surprisingly complicated.
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Bounce Rate
In web analytics, the bounce rate is the number of people that arrive on a web page and immediately leave.
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No-Code
A category of products and tools that enable users to create things that previously required developers to do.
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Citizen Developer
A term of art describing a non-developer that takes the initiative to solve a business problem, often hacking together a set of tools to make it work.
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Venture Capital Has Conflicting Incentives With Founders When It Comes to Outcomes
Venture capitalists and institutional investors need big returns and therefore they fund companies pursuing a big market (investor returns follow a power law).
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Power Law
An exponential plot where the 80% of Y comes from 20% of X.
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Peter Principle
A theory of management in which employees in a company are promoted until they are at a level of incompetence.
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Performance Management
This note does not have a description yet. Links to this note The Gervais Principle
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WebAssembly
A compilation target for executing in a virtual machine supported by web browsers and servers (via tools like wasmtime).
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The Gervais Principle
There are three groups of people within an organization: Sociopaths (tend to be at the top running the company, characterized by self-interest and need to control), Clueless (tend to be middle management, characterized by misplaced loyalty to the organization), and Losers (tend to be at the bottom, characterized by striking a bad economic bargain).
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It Takes Just as Much Effort to Build a Small Business as a Large One
Building a business of any size takes substantial effort and is stressful.
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Companies Are Containers for IP, Capital, Liability, and Ownership
At it’s heart, a company is a way of abstracting IP (the things or process of what you create), capital (investment, contributions, bank accounts), liability (separation from owners and employees), and ownership (how much does each person own on what terms).
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TypeScript Undermines the Value of the JavaScript Ecosystem and Static Typing
The way TypeScript adds incidental complexity to using libraries undermines the two most important values of using TypeScript and JavaScript.
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TypeScript Adds Incidental Complexity to Using Libraries
Inter-operating with libraries in the JavaScript ecosystem from TypeScript introduces incidental complexity due to packaging and types.
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Entrepreneur in Residence
A role at a VC firm where you get paid to work on your next startup and help vet deals or give advice to portfolio companies.
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List of Tools for Networked Thought
Below is a list of tools for networked thought I’ve come across:
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Ease of Publishing Increases Disagreement
In traditional media, writers write and readers read. On the internet, publishing is nearly free and readers can easily respond in comments, forums, blogs, and so on.