• Zettelkasten

    An analog note taking system that emphasizes connections between atomic ideas.

  • Why Aren't Remote Devboxes Used More Often?

    It seems like we should have better options for a full fledged, on-demand dev environment, that lives in the cloud, available from any internet connection, and you only pay for what you need.

  • Value Signaling

    Overtly stating or doing something for the purposes of letting other people know your position on a social issue for fear of being looked down on.

  • UX Entropy

    User experience for a non-trivial web UI tends to degrade over time as more functionality is added and more engineers add to it.

  • UX (User Experience)

    The subjective quality of the user’s motivations and feelings towards the interactions with a product.

  • UI Crawling

    From an entry point uncover all of the possible actions a user could take in a user interface.

  • Static Analysis of UX

    It seems possible to generate all states of a purely functional UI so that it can be analyzed and audited.

  • SCQA

    SCQA stands for the *s*ituation, *c*omplication, *q*uestion, and *a*nswer. It’s a way of writing an introduction in a way that clearly communicates the key question a piece of writing will answer.

  • Richard Hamming

    Mathematician and computer scientist. Important ideas: What matters is working on important problems or work on things that could lead to something important.

  • Richard Feynman

    Physicist and author of ‘Surely you are joking Mr. Feynman’ who worked on the Manhattan project and won a Nobel Prize.

  • Planning AI

    A sub field of artificial intelligence (AI) concerned with helping agents generate valid and coherent plans of actions to reach a goal.

  • Outward Effects

    Applies a result (usually favorable) to an activity e.g. learning (the activity) is valuable because of the outward effect on, for example, being better at one’s job and earning more money

  • Niklas Luhmann

    A sociologist famed for his prolific output–he wrote 70 books and 400 scholarly articles on a wide range of topics.