A blog of working notes that others can read and follow along with to learn about interesting ideas and things you are coming across.

A company can use time horizons as a competitive advantage by being willing to wait longer for returns on investment than competitors.

A model of computation where there is exactly one state at a time of a fixed number states.

Leaving notes in a way that takes advantage of our innate relationship with space and context.

80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. This distribution seems to repeat in many problem spaces where there is an imbalance between the inputs and outputs.

Most elements of our digital lives (e.g. apps) only exist within themselves and seldom work together.

An algorithm used for constraining elements in a UI such as adjusting layout based on the screen size.

When building products you are always learning new things about the user, the market, and their problems.

A single number to measure the productivity of a knowledge worker could be the number of new notes added per day.

A kind of fuel for nuclear reactors composed of a ‘sand’ of coated fuel pellets.

Smaller self-contained nuclear reactors that can be manufactured and shipped. Multiple micro-reactors can be combined for higher energy needs.

Nuclear reactors are often regulated by water to control excess heat.

Focusing on continuously improving p99.9 latency (long tail latency) not only improves overall latency, it necessitates more reliable systems, better user experience, and enables more enterprise sales who tend to want contractual obligations around p50 latency.

Telcos and cloud providers that require a high degree of uptime and reliability aim to have less than 1% of incidents caused by code or configuration changes.

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.

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