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Working From Home Reduces Your Carbon Footprint 58%
A new study on the climate impact of teleworking found that switching from working onsite to working from home full time can reduce up to 58% of work’s carbon footprint.
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At Mentions for Org-Mode
A pattern I really like in Notion is that you can a @ (at) mention any page with search as you type and autocomplete.
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Over 95% of NFTs Are Worthless
A study of 73,000 NFT collections found that more than 95% had a market cap of zero ether and an estimated 23 million people are holding worthless assets.
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LangChain
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Emacs and ChromaDB
The nice part about ChromaDB is that you can read the tables in SQLite using the new Emacs 29 sqlite-mode.
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Turn Off Chroma Telemetry in Langchain
You can turn off sending telemetry data to ChromaDB (now a venture backed startup) when using langchain.
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ChromaDB
ChromaDB is a vector database used for similarity searches on embeddings.
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Migrations Are Mini Rewrites
As software grows, patterns and practices naturally evolve. Inevitably, someone comes to the conclusion that a change should happen and code should be migrated to the new thing.
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We've All Been Marl
Marl is the marginal user. The one who represents the broad base of users that drive most product decisions to the lowest common denominator.
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Startup Sales Win Rates Decreased
According to the Lightspeed sales benchmark report for 2023, win rates decreased for 42% of companies surveyed.
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It Only Takes Two to Make an Auction
When it comes to selling an asset, it’s helpful to remember that it only takes two people to make an auction.
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No Next Step, No Deal
In sales, it’s easy to mislead yourself into thinking a sales deal is on track when it’s not.
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Prevent Empty Strings in Postgres
A common data consistency issue is writing empty strings to the database.
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Directly Responsible Individual
A DRI is a commonly used organizational pattern where one person is directly responsible for the overall outcome of an initiative.
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What's the Trade?
When you see something absurd in the market, it’s helpful to ask, “What’s the trade?
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Every Portfolio Is Long Something and Short Something
Every portfolio and every decision can be decomposed into being long something and short something.
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Programmatic SEO Is a Numbers Game
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.
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How to Track Two Timezones on a Watch With a Dive Bezel
You can use a watch with a dive bezel to track two timezones at onces without a GMT hand.
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Time Between Series a and Series B Is 31 Months on Average
In 2023, the average time between raising a Series A and Series B round increased to 31 months according to Crunchbase.
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People Don't Expect Much From Simple Ideas
People tend to think impressive results must come from impressively complicated means and effort.
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How to Take Smart Notes (Literature Notes)
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.
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46% of Developers Code Comes From GitHub Copilot
A blog post from GitHub says that their code assistance tool, Copilot, is behind 46% of developers' code, up from 27%.
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Don't Step Into Someone Else's Frame
When negotiating, it’s important to control the frame in which the conversation is happening.
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Make Contact With Reality
One of the keys to building great products is to regularly make contact with reality.