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.

Accumulated short-term compromises and hacks in a codebase that must be paid down over time.

High performing engineering teams continuously raise the bar for technical quality.

People prefer to keep things the same due to loss aversion and take actions to inhibit or minimize change.

People are generally bad at thinking and making decisions about long-term consequences.

People find it more painful to lose something than to gain something equivalent.

The rise, and stagnation, of serverless computing could be interpreted as it was too hard (security, reliability, speed) and expensive to run your own server (configuring linux, wordpress/rails).

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

People are bad at understanding exponential growth. They over estimate short term results and under estimate long term results.

Due to the nature of compounding interests growing exponentially over time, the immediate benefits of such an effect are small compared to the benefits at the end.

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).

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

We tend to judge early versions of work too harshly due to skepticism.

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.

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.