A product team or organization that moves slowly (e.g. reviews, gatekeepers, heavy process) in introducing changes moves slower over time.

There is a tendency to write a problem statement as the problem you wantto solve (i.

In a note taking practice, the act of publishing and reviewing notes helps to visualize progress of growing your knowledge.

The act of writing notes of self contained ideas and facts leads to deeper understanding.

Thomas Malthus was an 18th-century economist who stated in ‘An Essay on the Principle of Population’ that population growth is exponential, but the production of food is linear.

Energy and growth are tightly correlated. The more energy consumption a society has the greater their GDP.

Recent research shows that Machu Picchu was purposely constructed on top of two intersecting fault lines.

Long term work on inter-generational problems (e.g. climate change) requires inter-generational partnership.

Caring for an object for the purpose of passing down to a future generation helps people think long term.

It’s unfortunate American values and belief systems are incompatible with successfully managing the COVID-19 pandemic.

Charlie Munger calls the lollapalooza effect a combination of several elements all acting in concert to create an even greater outcome.

In rust, a variable is declared as mutable or immutable and allof it’s fields (in the case of a struct) are declared the same–you can’t mutate a field while also making a borrow of another field.

The stock price of a corporation being added to an index fund increases along with it’s competitors that are also included in the index fund.

Prominent investor and founder of Berkshire Hathaway, known for thoughts about good decision making and applying a ‘latticework of mental models’ from a wide range of academic fields.

A measurement of cardiovascular fitness and endurance by measuring the max oxygen the body can consume during exercise.

Computer scientist and musician that designed the Clojure programming language. Has given many influential talks about functional programming.

Beats per minute when not doing any activity. A normal resting heart rate for an adult is ~60 bpm, high resting heart rate (tachycardia) >100 bpm, and low resting heart rate (bradycardia) <60 bpm.

A lisp functional programming language designed by Rich Hickey. The core philosophy is to organize programs around the transformation of values using pure functions and isolated side-effects.

Make it obvious: Journaling is the first thing I do in the morning after I take the dogs out.

Lighthouse is a set of automatic checks performed on a website that measure overall web performance on mobile and desktop.

A long list of ships is neither useful nor effective without a way for the team to conceptualize the main ideas and how it adds up to achieving a set of goals.

When designing a review processes within an organization, tease apart the different functions of how the process works then ask which parts are more like ‘spell check’.

Roadmaps turn strategy into discrete units that will be worked on to accomplish a set of goals.

An automated system that eliminates a class of feedback when reviewing a work product.