It’s difficult to work with someone who always seems to be aggrieved.

I used to feel like asking a list of discovery questions to qualify a prospect during a call was awkward and not useful.

Imagine a busy executive trying to work with multiple people. They’re coming in and out of meetings and working on several projects all day long.

What you intend to do with your notes is the thing that motivates you to take notes in the first place.

This chart, adapted from xkcd, tells you the amount of time saved over 5 years based on how much time you are able to shave off of the task.

OpenAI GPT models (GPT 4 at time of writing) do not accurately or consistently parse or manipulate dates.

Self querying by date using LangChain doesn’t work well. The default schema used for parsing natural language into the internal representation of langchain for querying a vector store does not work with dates because it uses the wrong type (it tries to use a dict but you can only filter using integers or strings).

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.