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In Hollywood set design, you need to optimize in a way that optimizes for the most impact on screen–money spent off screen is effectively useless to the end result, the film.

Cubic feet per square meter is a measurement of how much air breathability and air resistance a fabric has.

The point in which the lineage of any two people currently alive can be traced to the same common ancestor.

The most famous personal injury attorneys from New York due to non-stop advertising, Cellino & Barnes created a breakthrough business that was very successful (each partner was making $10MM per year at one point).

The Nova SDS011 sensor is an inexpensive ($30) air quality sensor that uses laser scattering to detect particles at 2.

Air quality index is calculated from the value of a pollutant concentration (pm2.

The price of solar panels drops 20% for every time the quantity shipped doubles.

The user’s evaluation of the quality of a product is not separate from the aesthetics.

The idea that, as a result of mass surveillance, data collection and social media are leading to behavioral changes.

If everything is public or under surveillance, actions could have negative externalities.

Using one’s natural tendency to procrastinate in a way that’s productive.

Neglected UX is when parts of the user experience are not quite broken, but subtly incongruous.

Famed animated film studio that created such popular films as Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, and much more.

A book about business strategy by Hamilton Helmer which outlines seven ‘powers’ that are the cause of successful companies.

Technology companies that are small and private, writing software on their own terms.

Change is difficult for people. Solving product problems requires change. The default behavior is resistance to change.

When AI comes about it will be colored by the creators.

The scripts used to embed media such as tweets and YouTube videos include a full complement of ad tracking and third-party cookies which are used to follow visitors around the internet to serve them ads and collect more data.

Blacklight is a tool from The Markup that inspects websites for ad trackers, third party cookies, session recording, keylogging, and other privacy compromising technology.

To optimize code, reduce state, coupling, complexity, and code, in that order.

Software engineers early in their career tend to optimize code by decreasing duplication and applying the DRY (don’t repeat yourself) principle.

Comments on the internet come in multiple waves and are fueled by objections.

You don’t understand a distributed computing problem until you get it to fit on a single machine first.