A study performed in 2008 by UC San Diego found that American households consumed ~3.

In the early stage of a startup, companies have limited resources and a wide range of things that need to get done.

When interviewing candidates about their experiences and challenges they have encountered, you learn a lot about their employer, how they work, and the real story behind some decisions if you listen closely.

The practice of being mindful about consciousness so that one can be more present and not have their mental states dictated by things out of their control.

In the new normal brought on by COVID-19, typical activities that we rely on to recover and recharge are not available anymore due to the economic shutdown.

A way of modeling an external API provider as a compute resource for executing an agent program.

In game design and development, juice is a term for the details that make the game visually interesting and exciting to interact with.

In video game programming it can be tempting to replicate a client server model similar to how websites work.

Stands for ‘below the line up front’ as a way leading with the conclusion from a memo.

User experience research (UXR) is a function that works with users and analyzing data to learn about and test ideas.

A book by Yuval Noah Harari about the history of humans and how we got to where we are today.

When given the option to start with something pre-built, developer minded users are skeptical they won’t have enough control over the implementation and run into a critical limitation or burden.

Users that think about your product in terms of how it will be used and what they need it to do.

Users that frame decisions by understanding cost, benefits, and want to buy solutions.

An easy way to explain a Zettelkasten system of taking notes would be to explain it as a mind map (connections between discrete concepts) combined with atomic notes (each note has a single topic).

A tools for networked thought that allows the user to offload a process into something external to themselves.

A photography exhibit by Eric Pickersgill which shows people in their every day life looking at their phones, but with the phone removed from the image.

White people respond with outrage over any allegation, perceived or actual, of racism because they see racist as synononymous with bad people who hurt others.

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In mindfulness, the practice of meditation aims to deconstruct the ego by observing thoughts and trying to notice where they originate.

People tend to conflate the ability to write code and intelligence.

Mercury is a better option for colonization than Mars because of the abundance of solar and thermal energy and availability of water.

Most messages sent on Slack do not happen in public or private channels, but in DMs.

A staggering amount of energy is used to power Bitcoin and Ethereum, the two largest blockchains.