When you see something absurd in the market, it’s helpful to ask, “What’s the trade?

Every portfolio and every decision can be decomposed into being long something and short something.

Being able to programmatically generate content for search engine optimization is only useful if you have a lot of keywords you can target (thousands) and pages you can generate to rank for them.

You can use a watch with a dive bezel to track two timezones at onces without a GMT hand.

In 2023, the average time between raising a Series A and Series B round increased to 31 months according to Crunchbase.

People tend to think impressive results must come from impressively complicated means and effort.

A book by Sönke Ahrens about taking notes to improve productivity and writing which is incredibly convincing but extremely impractical in describing what to actually do.

A blog post from GitHub says that their code assistance tool, Copilot, is behind 46% of developers' code, up from 27%.

When negotiating, it’s important to control the frame in which the conversation is happening.

One of the keys to building great products is to regularly make contact with reality.

It’s useful to think about the underlying utilities that go into running one’s life and business with the same rigor used to build something significant.

I started building AI for notes to help me chat with my library of notes.

I built org-ai using Python which exposes an AI chat interface through a simple CLI.

Sometimes I want to see how many headings are in an org-mode file I’m working in.

I tested my internet connection with and without NordLayer VPN to compare speed using Cloudflare’s new tool.

Physically making progress on a project makes it much harder to undo due to loss aversion and the sunk cost fallacy.

A survey by Greenhouse found that 76% of workers would look for another job if their company rolled back flexible work policies.

When I first started programming, I thought everyone else was better than me at coding.

It takes four to six months to start seeing any results from SEO work.

When you have multiple Google workspace accounts with calendars, it makes scheduling difficult (e.

All working knowledge has a decay curve of usefulness. If you rely on having up-to-date, deep technical knowledge as a manager, you will eventually lose the thing that makes you effective.

Personhood of self-driving cars and autonomouse vehicles might matter much more than we expect for everyone’s safety.

There is tremendous power in being able to simultaneously hold two ideas in one’s head that appear to be in opposition.

By combining headless browser automation tools with LLMs, you can create an agent that can navigate to websites.