The majority of websites of the ‘old web’ (1990’s) were hand crafted, highly customized places where creators acted more as librarians—carefully maintaining a table of contents and some evergreen content.

I’ve now written 500 notes and roughly 84,000 words since May 25, 2020 in my Zettelkasten.

Streams are a metaphor for the majority of the Internet we interact with today characterized by time-ordered events that require context to understand.

Since I started publishing my Zettelkasten notes, I’ve noticed a large change in overall search engine traffic.

Digital gardening is a superset of Zettelkasten principles applied to public content.

Examples of digital gardens I’ve come across: Maggie Appleton’s digital garden Tom Critchlow’s digital garden Neil Mather’s digital garden Links to this note The Garden and the Stream

This note does not have a description yet. Links to this note The Internet Is Not Prosthetic

You can achieve better compression ratios resulting in significantly smaller file sizes by pre-compressing files as part of the deployment process.

Loading a ‘Public Database’ Roam Research note takes 1.65 seconds and 5.

Brotli is a compression algorithm developed by Google that is supported by all modern browsers.

Modern JS toolchains like npm and webpack optimize for ease of adding third-party libraries over keeping bundle size (and page bloat) small.

People tend to take the path that requires the least effort to satisfy a need or want.

On it’s surface, AWS Lambda seems simple—it merely invokes a function with some arguments.

Throughout history, humans have shown incredible ability to acquire power (wealth, natural resources, technology, empires), but continually fail to turn it into increased happiness.

Modern websites are filled with javascript, assets, tracking, and third-party tracking.

A way of making concepts and abstractions easier to understand is to project them onto another dimension and scale.

A common rebuttal from police brutality apologists is that it is ‘just a few bad apples’ and therefore not all cops are bad.

A metaphor for mindfulness, we can get caught up in the moment and swept up in our emotions and impulses (watching the movie), but if you can step back and recognize that it’s all light and shadow on a screen you can be reminded that everything arises in consciousness (looking at the screen).

Notes can be organized and structured into heterarchies (nodes with multiple relationships without a strict hierarchy) by creating an entry note that encompasses other notes (a note of notes).

I’ve noticed that discussions on Zettelkasten forums and comment threads in HackerNews when a new Zettelkasten-like tool is shared are overly fixated on the tools and correctness of the process.

Below are some shapes of engineers I’ve managed in my career and what I’ve learned about them.

Lowering the interest rate has the effect of decreasing the risk for every asset class.

Prior to perfomance management calibrations, each manager writes a document that briefly summarizes the performance of each person they managed during the review period.

A process for managers and senior leaders to discuss the performance across the organization with the goal of consistently and fairly applying expectations for all roles and levels.