Visualize your thoughts as a sushi train that constantly revolves around you with different dishes that represent the flavor of thought.

People tend to be more judgmental and harsher on themselves than on others.

The practice of bringing your attention to the present moment without judgment.

An iOS app that provides version control over folders using the Files API.

Slowing down a process can be valuable when applied thoughtfully. For example, confirmation when deleting a file or charging a nominal fee.

Knowledge work processes should be accretive (rather than ephemeral or ad-hoc).

Most knowledge work is ephemeral–we write documents, emails, code and then it’s done.

It’s better to favor duplication over the wrong abstraction. The wrong abstraction starts out as a way to remove duplication and then gets altered over time to handle more and more conditions to the point where it’s unique to all the callers.

Describes the differences between programmers by grouping them into three buckets–poets, hackers, and makers.

Estimate how many weeks it will take for a value to double if it continues to grows at a certain rate e.

An estimation technique where you round variables to the nearest power of 10 then when you need to multiply or divide these powers of 10 you just need to add/subtract exponents.

We tend to think of experience in a given role is obviously good–it provides pattern matching and intuitions built up on lived events.

An essay that relates Gödel’s incompleteness theorem (along with the Halting Problem) to startup disruption—arguing that all successful startups discover one or more G-statements and extract value by building a formal system around it.

An unprovable, but true statement as described in Gödel’s incompleteness theorem.

A formal system consists of axioms (statements that are true) and rules (how axioms can be manipulated).

Having a delightful UX (user experience) is obviously good, yet not provable.

A package built into Emacs which combines outlining, task management, scheduling, code execution, spreadsheet, and much more.

A context-free grammar can be described using Extended Backus–Naur form (EBNF) notation.

The Soviet Ruling class, members of the communist party that control everything.

A modeling programming language and environment that provides a way to express, simulate, and optimize systems (usually physical).

A formal system (one that is consistent never yields a false statement) can not also be a complete system (containing all true statements)–there will always be statements that are unprovable yet true (i.

A declarative language for describing diagrams and an environment that renders .

Giving a thing to someone else, while still retaining ownership, for the purposes of selling the thing.

A corona virus that became a global pandemic. The number of cases has surpassed 2MM and over 500 thousand people have died (at time of writing).