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.

We tend to find supporting arguments for the mindset we are in.

Users choose which podcasts they want to listen to and manually curate them into a listening experience on their own terms.

Shared resources used by individuals with no ownership end up depleting it.

When comparing recent technological advancement with the previous century, most of the biggest changes are simulation versus physical.

Funnel metrics tend to decline with each successive cohorts as a company grows and saturates segments that have strong product market fit.

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.

In our day-to-day lives we use a collection of products and homegrown tools to do our work.

A company tends to design systems that mirror their communication structure e.

When doing an activity that requires peak performance, strive for 85% of what you believe is your best.

Tools that enable connections between ideas and memories help to improve the growth of accumulated knowledge.

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.

Determines the grade level required to read a text based on a score of average sentence length and average syllables per word.

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.

A statically typed programming language which enforces writing code that is free from certain memory errors (use after free, dangling pointers).

Economist and professor at Harvard, winner of the John Bates Clark Medal.

Setting a goal around a metric that is the result of the output of other metrics and goals being driven.

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.

Something that can be perceived that is not based on a physical sensation such as intuiting or a gut feeling.

A book about building systems of small habits that compound over time.

It’s healthier to determine the actions you take based on your values rather than your emotional state.

A method for representing state of a system using immutable events over time that can be aggregated to derive state at a particular moment.

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.