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We Find Evidence for Whichever Mindset We Have
We tend to find supporting arguments for the mindset we are in.
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Tragedy of the Commons
Shared resources used by individuals with no ownership end up depleting it.
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Recent Technological Advancement Is in Simulation
When comparing recent technological advancement with the previous century, most of the biggest changes are simulation versus physical.
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Adjacent User Theory
Funnel metrics tend to decline with each successive cohorts as a company grows and saturates segments that have strong product market fit.
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Memex Device
A fictional device from the essay As We May Think, written in 1945 by Vannevar Bush, which both stores knowledge (books, notes, annotations, conversations) and connections between them allowing someone to follow trails of associated knowledge.
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Workflows Are More Useful Than Solutions
In our day-to-day lives we use a collection of products and homegrown tools to do our work.
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Conway's Law
A company tends to design systems that mirror their communication structure e.
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85% Rule
When doing an activity that requires peak performance, strive for 85% of what you believe is your best.
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Tools for Networked Thought
Tools that enable connections between ideas and memories help to improve the growth of accumulated knowledge.
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Sword of Damocles
A parable of where Damocles who, after exulting how nice it must be to be king was offered to switch places with the king Dionysius for a day.
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Flesch Reading Ease Test
Determines the grade level required to read a text based on a score of average sentence length and average syllables per word.
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The Significance of Persistence in Predicting Economic Outcomes
Melissa Dell’s research on the significance of persistence in predicting economic outcomes looked at Vietnam pre-colonization (by France) and after the Vietnam war.
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Rust
A statically typed programming language which enforces writing code that is free from certain memory errors (use after free, dangling pointers).
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Melissa Dell
Economist and professor at Harvard, winner of the John Bates Clark Medal.
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Eigenvector Goals
Setting a goal around a metric that is the result of the output of other metrics and goals being driven.
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Tim Ferris
Podcast host and author who works with famous/impressive people from various fields to discuss how they work, how they think, and how you might learn from their practice.
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Felt Sense
Something that can be perceived that is not based on a physical sensation such as intuiting or a gut feeling.
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Atomic Habits
A book about building systems of small habits that compound over time.
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Actions Should Be Dictated by Values, Not Emotions
It’s healthier to determine the actions you take based on your values rather than your emotional state.
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Software Architectural Pattern
A way of organizing code and abstracting concepts to build a software system often with the goals of robustness, reliability, extensibility, performance, and correctness.
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Event Sourcing
A method for representing state of a system using immutable events over time that can be aggregated to derive state at a particular moment.
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ECS
An entity component system (ECS) model is a software architectural pattern way of organizing a program that is oriented around and is easily extensible often used in games.
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In-Group Favoritism
The tendency to give preferential treatment to those belonging to the one’s in-group over one’s out-group.
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Belief Congruence Theory
The theory that belief is more significant than race in determining racial or ethnic discrimination.