Stone fish traps in use over the last 40,000 years located in the Barwon River that some believe are the earliest human construction in the world.

A quote from George Lucas about how Star Wars was about he Vietnam War and the backdrop of Nixon’s run for a second term.

A metaphor for how we respond to negative emotions such as anxiety, anger, sadness.

The idea that life originated on another planet and was transported to Earth.

An activity or action one can do regularly that draws people to you because you are providing something of value.

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Converts code into generated music on-the-fly. There’s a sub-genre of electronic music that uses programming tools at live shows where the musician grows the program by writing and reinterpreting code as the audience watches and listens.

Plain text is the lingua franca for storing information that is simultaneously readable and writeable by computers and humans.

A blog post is the synthesis of multiple ideas communicated to an audience where as writing a note is the act of collecting an idea written for yourself.

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.

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.