An object’s likeness that is very similar to another, but slightly off which evokes an eerie negative reaction.

Collaboration is low-bandwidth if the mediums in which groups of people coordinate require little resources.

Learning a programming language that is immature and substantially different from what’s commonly used in the industry makes you faster at programming, specifically debugging and unblocking.

When working remotely, teams rely on low-bandwidth collaboration (e.g. video conferencing).

From a talk by Bret Victor where he talks about the principle of getting immediate feedback in a tight loop with whatever you are building.

Baumeister and Tice introduced the concept that willpower is a finite resource that can be exhausted when used because it requires mental energy.

A command line interface for a web application that seamlessly blends text based user input and graphical UI elements for output.

Doing things fast has more primary and second-order benefits than we realize which makes it hard to conceptualize its full value.

The reason there are far fewer engineering management blogs compared to software development blogs not because there is a small supply of managers who can write blogs, but because managers are secretly worried they are doing it completely wrong (imposter syndrome).

Hot iron is rage and emotion. Cold iron is calculating and unwavering.

Emotion feels like it has extra meaning to us and demands our attention.

People prefer situations where they know the risk. In experiments ran by Daniel Ellsberg, participants were asked to bet on a known 10% chance to win and an unknown chance to win (which was actually 90%).

In mindfulness, calling attention to anything that enters consciousness has the effect of bringing you back to the present moment rather than lost in thought or dwelling on something.

A free/libre text editor that has so much functionality that it’s often joked about being an operating system that has an ok text editor.

There are more people in the U.S. dying of COVID-19 per day than WWII and the number of total deaths will likely exceed the total U.

An exercise to enumerate all of the ways a project couldgo wrong.

All thoughts, senses, and perception arises in the same place, one’s consciousness.

While it might seem like being stressed or anxious is binary, it’s more like a sum.

Signaling is often the underlying motivation for our behaviors. We make visible our values to both the in-group and out-groups in ways such as buying a luxury automobile (to signal wealth) or posting a flattering image of ourselves on vacation.

Robinhood is linked to recent events like the stock price of Hertz skyrocketing despite going bankrupt or Kodak jumping 1,000% on news of a pivot to drug manufacturing.

Behavioral change, such as forming a new habit, can be motivated by how it reflects your identity (both positively and negatively)–we do things that provide evidence for who we are.

A manager is constantly sythesizing information into useful direction and feedback to the team.

The platonic ideal of technology and human interaction occurred during the summer of 2016 when everyone was playing Pokémon Go.

A pathfinding algorithm for finding an optimal path within a graph between two nodes.