The Lorca Model 1 is a romantic watch. It blends elements of several iconic watches that remind me of a time I never lived through.

Making the most of practical applications of large language models requires creativity.

A recent analysis of 20 million research articles and 4 million patent applications found that distributed teams are less likely to have a breakthrough discovery than their on-site counterparts.

Here’s how to write permanent notes based on How to Take Smart Notes.

If your investments are good only because of future optimism, you will have surprises in the downside case.

Worrying about being sick seems to increase your risk of death.

A business can get kicked off of their PEO or unable to use a PEO if even a single employee “overutilizes” insurance benefits.

Most runaway successes we hear about often have some mythology of the moment the founding team unlocked exponential growth.

In business strategy you’ll often hear a competitive advantage described as a moat, but most moats are more like a long bridge.

Sometimes the person that reaches out for a demo is not the decision maker.

If you do something more than once, write down the steps taken to complete the task.

A simple way to deliver effective feedback to an employee is the use the like/wish framework.

By far the best installation and running experience for using a large language model locally is llamafile.

If you’ve ever accidentally deleted something from a file and want to recover it using git you can search the full history for a string.

When building systems that require monitoring and alerting, a false alarm should be treated as a bug.

Being able to lead a project that coordinate multiple people, teams, and organizations is critical for career development.

Questions naturally arise when writing. Since writing is thinking, when we turn over an idea in our head, we can’t help spotting things we don’t understand or finding a topic we want to learn more about.

It should be repeatable, measurable, and profitable. Every product and business is different.

Chess players burn a lot of calories at the highest levels of competitive chess tournaments.

Before COVID-19, the majority of B2B selling happened in-person and over email and phone calls (61%).

An overlooked part of understanding information and not merely memorizing it, is to elaborate on the meaning of something you just learned.

The prevailing industry of the last century was the industry of atoms—physical infrastructure, extraction of natural resources, and moving things around faster.

The essay Capitalism is dead: long live Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek Minister of Finance, describes how advancements in technology killed what we used to call capitalism and replaced it, unwittingly, with a form of feudalism.

My hunt for a mobile setup for org-roam continues. LogSeq doesn’t handle org IDs.