# Publishing Log Total published articles: 149 ## Published by Date ### 2025-06-22 * [[Being busy is a status symbol]] ### 2025-06-15 * [[It's hard to intuit 70%]] ### 2025-06-08 * [[Thoughts on product specs in the age of vibe-coding]] ### 2025-05-29 * [[The Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy]] ### 2025-05-28 * [[Keynes' Cat]] ### 2025-05-25 * [[Meditations for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman]] ### 2025-04-18 * [[The Lessons of History, Will and Ariel Durant]] ### 2025-04-15 * [[The stereotypes are true and harmful]] ### 2025-04-12 * [[AI will reflect our biases]] ### 2025-04-04 * [[Bottle-openers and swiss-army knives]] * [[Psych Points]] * [[Tesler’s Law]] ### 2025-04-03 * [[House Cats vs Street Cats - What I had to unlearn to become a Founder]] ### 2025-03-18 * [[Hegelian dialectics]] ### 2025-03-16 * [[Nine Lives, Aimen Dean]] ### 2025-03-13 * [[Type-1 vs Type-2 fun]] * [[1,000 True Fans]] ### 2025-03-10 * [[Default mode network]] ### 2025-03-09 * [[What I Talk about When I Talk about Running, Haruki Murakami]] * [[Builder's Bias]] * [[Information Hazard]] ### 2025-03-08 * [[Prospect Theory]] ### 2025-03-07 * [[Chesterson's Fence]] * [[Endowment effect]] * [[Lead and lag metrics]] ### 2025-03-05 * [[Dichotomy of control]] ### 2025-03-02 * [[Human Compatible, Stuart Russell]] * [[On Writing Well, William Zinsser]] * [[Writing sharpens thinking]] * [[KL Divergence]] ### 2025-03-01 * [[Move 37]] * [[Temperature and Softmax (LLMs)]] * [[Curse of knowledge]] * [[Lindy effect]] * [[Wireheading]] ### 2025-02-28 * [[Adaptiveness]] ### 2025-02-23 * [[Outcomes vs outputs - Get the right scoreboard for your team]] * [[ZIRP Management is what preceded Founder Mode]] * [[Antifragility]] * [[Cynefin model]] * [[Environment of evolutionary adaptedness (EEA)]] * [[First principles]] * [[Nudges not dictation]] * [[Production vs People Grid]] * [[Let people save face]] ### 2025-02-22 * [[Everything is a Binary Classification Problem]] * [[Explore vs Exploit]] * [[GTD]] * [[Software vs hardware (Baldwin Effect)]] ### 2025-02-21 * [[System 1 vs System 2]] ### 2025-02-20 * [[Barrels vs Ammo]] * [[Via Negativa]] ### 2025-02-19 * [[Jason's razor]] * [[Metis vs Techne vs Episteme]] * [[Negativity bias]] ### 2025-02-17 * [[Reminder Cron]] * [[Task Leak]] ### 2025-02-16 * [[The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey]] * [[Abstracted actions advance humanity]] * [[10 minutes, 10 days, 10 years]] * [[Algernon’s Law]] * [[Hofstadterian]] * [[P vs PC]] * [[View from the ninth avenue and life's subroutines]] * [[Choose positive payoff curves]] * [[Sharpen your saw]] ### 2025-02-15 * [[Transmissibility is the k-factor of ideas]] * [[Abductive, Deductive, Inductive Reasoning]] * [[Hard to Work With]] ### 2025-02-13 * [[Allow for noise margin in communication]] * [[Do the work to hold an opinion]] ### 2025-02-12 * [[Sermons get you closer to your ideal self]] * [[Sleeping Better]] * [[In the right forest]] * [[Accountability is the price of autonomy]] * [[Assume best intentions in candid environments]] * [[The main thing is to make the main thing the main thing]] ### 2025-02-09 * [[Creative Selection, Ken Kocienda]] * [[Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel]] * [[Neurons that fire together wire together]] * [[Priors are important but often invisible]] * [[Repetition doesn't ruin the prayer]] * [[Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself]] * [[Systems that are too reliable can introduce fragility]] * [[Instrumental Convergence]] * [[Legibility]] ### 2025-02-08 * [[For company values to be useful their opposites have to be defensible]] * [[Rich and healthy]] * [[Update Spectrum]] ### 2025-02-07 * [[Every organism wants to grow]] ### 2025-02-03 * [[Three Types of Feedback]] ### 2025-02-02 * [[The Shortest History of England, James Hawes]] * [[The Story of the Human Language, John McWhorter (Great Courses)]] * [[System 1 is good with averages, not sums]] * [[Greenshifting]] * [[Theory X and Theory Y]] * [[Yak shaving]] ### 2025-01-31 * [[Unseen alternatives]] ### 2025-01-30 * [[Use the Dream-Plan-Ask framework for career 1x1s]] ### 2025-01-26 * [[Aristotelian Moderation]] * [[Franklin's Balance Sheet]] * [[Goal Displacement]] * [[Goodhart's Law]] * [[Useful fiction]] ### 2025-01-25 * [[Endurance, Alfred Lansing]] * [[The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich]] * [[There's no such thing as "leave it up to the user"]] * [[Darwin's Golden Rule]] * [[IKEA Effect]] ### 2025-01-24 * [[Spend more time at the surface]] * [[Time is asymmetric in organizations]] * [[You can amplify your message by snapping-to common terms]] * [[In the Limit]] * [[Zero-based thinking]] * [[Try not to touch the wheel]] ### 2025-01-23 * [[Bring people along]] ### 2025-01-22 * [[Everyone thinks they're the good guy]] * [[Seek mental hypertrophy]] ### 2025-01-20 * [[Stick to your best arguments]] ### 2025-01-19 * [[Empathy is free]] * [[Audible]] * [[Bannister (Four Minute Mile) Effect]] * [[Bike shedding]] * [[Single Decisive Reason]] ### 2025-01-18 * [[Consciousness and the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene]] * [[Gut Feelings, Greg Gigerenzer]] * [[The Elements of Eloquence, Matt Forsyth]] * [[Buridan's Ass]] * [[Conway's Law]] * [[Cow and calf problem]] * [[Efficient vs Effective]] * [[Fredkin Paradox]] * [[Less is better effect]] * [[Take-the-best heuristic]] * [[No live post-mortems]] * [[Over-communicate as a leader]] ### 2025-01-17 * [[One-way vs two-way doors]] ### 2025-01-16 * [[Set a Top Goal every single work day]] ### 2025-01-13 * [[Scope Neglect]] * [[Begin from the end]] ### 2025-01-12 * [[Hanlon's razor]] * [[Hemingway Effect - Stop when you have appetite for more]] * [[Managers need to Whitebox]] * [[RAPID (Decision-Making Framework)]] * [[Macro patient, micro impatient]] ### 2025-01-11 * [[The Great CEO Within, Matt Mochary]] * [[Managers can't run for reports, but they keep the stopwatch]] * [[McNamara Fallacy]] ### 2025-01-10 * [[Act with conviction to get the USB plug right on the first try]] ## Published by Folder ### Book Summaries * [[Consciousness and the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene]] * [[Creative Selection, Ken Kocienda]] * [[Endurance, Alfred Lansing]] * [[Gut Feelings, Greg Gigerenzer]] * [[Human Compatible, Stuart Russell]] * [[Meditations for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman]] * [[Nine Lives, Aimen Dean]] * [[On Writing Well, William Zinsser]] * [[The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey]] * [[The Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy]] * [[The Elements of Eloquence, Matt Forsyth]] * [[The Great CEO Within, Matt Mochary]] * [[The Lessons of History, Will and Ariel Durant]] * [[The Shortest History of England, James Hawes]] * [[The Story of the Human Language, John McWhorter (Great Courses)]] * [[The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich]] * [[What I Talk about When I Talk about Running, Haruki Murakami]] * [[Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel]] ### Essays * [[House Cats vs Street Cats - What I had to unlearn to become a Founder]] * [[Outcomes vs outputs - Get the right scoreboard for your team]] * [[Spend more time at the surface]] * [[Thoughts on product specs in the age of vibe-coding]] * [[ZIRP Management is what preceded Founder Mode]] ### Evergreen Notes * [[AI will reflect our biases]] * [[Abstracted actions advance humanity]] * [[Being busy is a status symbol]] * [[Empathy is free]] * [[Every organism wants to grow]] * [[Everyone thinks they're the good guy]] * [[For company values to be useful their opposites have to be defensible]] * [[It's hard to intuit 70%]] * [[Managers can't run for reports, but they keep the stopwatch]] * [[Neurons that fire together wire together]] * [[Priors are important but often invisible]] * [[Repetition doesn't ruin the prayer]] * [[Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself]] * [[Sermons get you closer to your ideal self]] * [[Sleeping Better]] * [[System 1 is good with averages, not sums]] * [[Systems that are too reliable can introduce fragility]] * [[The stereotypes are true and harmful]] * [[There's no such thing as "leave it up to the user"]] * [[Time is asymmetric in organizations]] * [[Transmissibility is the k-factor of ideas]] * [[Writing sharpens thinking]] * [[You can amplify your message by snapping-to common terms]] ### Learning/AI * [[KL Divergence]] * [[Move 37]] * [[Temperature and Softmax (LLMs)]] ### Mental Models * [[10 minutes, 10 days, 10 years]] * [[Abductive, Deductive, Inductive Reasoning]] * [[Adaptiveness]] * [[Algernon’s Law]] * [[Antifragility]] * [[Aristotelian Moderation]] * [[Audible]] * [[Bannister (Four Minute Mile) Effect]] * [[Barrels vs Ammo]] * [[Bike shedding]] * [[Bottle-openers and swiss-army knives]] * [[Builder's Bias]] * [[Buridan's Ass]] * [[Chesterson's Fence]] * [[Conway's Law]] * [[Cow and calf problem]] * [[Curse of knowledge]] * [[Cynefin model]] * [[Darwin's Golden Rule]] * [[Default mode network]] * [[Dichotomy of control]] * [[Efficient vs Effective]] * [[Endowment effect]] * [[Environment of evolutionary adaptedness (EEA)]] * [[Everything is a Binary Classification Problem]] * [[Explore vs Exploit]] * [[First principles]] * [[Franklin's Balance Sheet]] * [[Fredkin Paradox]] * [[GTD]] * [[Goal Displacement]] * [[Goodhart's Law]] * [[Greenshifting]] * [[Hanlon's razor]] * [[Hard to Work With]] * [[Hegelian dialectics]] * [[Hemingway Effect - Stop when you have appetite for more]] * [[Hofstadterian]] * [[IKEA Effect]] * [[In the Limit]] * [[In the right forest]] * [[Information Hazard]] * [[Instrumental Convergence]] * [[Jason's razor]] * [[Keynes' Cat]] * [[Lead and lag metrics]] * [[Legibility]] * [[Less is better effect]] * [[Lindy effect]] * [[Managers need to Whitebox]] * [[McNamara Fallacy]] * [[Metis vs Techne vs Episteme]] * [[Negativity bias]] * [[Nudges not dictation]] * [[One-way vs two-way doors]] * [[P vs PC]] * [[Production vs People Grid]] * [[Prospect Theory]] * [[Psych Points]] * [[RAPID (Decision-Making Framework)]] * [[Reminder Cron]] * [[Rich and healthy]] * [[Scope Neglect]] * [[Single Decisive Reason]] * [[Software vs hardware (Baldwin Effect)]] * [[System 1 vs System 2]] * [[Take-the-best heuristic]] * [[Task Leak]] * [[Tesler’s Law]] * [[Theory X and Theory Y]] * [[Three Types of Feedback]] * [[Type-1 vs Type-2 fun]] * [[Unseen alternatives]] * [[Update Spectrum]] * [[Useful fiction]] * [[Via Negativa]] * [[View from the ninth avenue and life's subroutines]] * [[Wireheading]] * [[Yak shaving]] * [[Zero-based thinking]] ### Principles * [[Accountability is the price of autonomy]] * [[Act with conviction to get the USB plug right on the first try]] * [[Allow for noise margin in communication]] * [[Assume best intentions in candid environments]] * [[Begin from the end]] * [[Bring people along]] * [[Choose positive payoff curves]] * [[Do the work to hold an opinion]] * [[Let people save face]] * [[Macro patient, micro impatient]] * [[No live post-mortems]] * [[Over-communicate as a leader]] * [[Seek mental hypertrophy]] * [[Set a Top Goal every single work day]] * [[Sharpen your saw]] * [[Stick to your best arguments]] * [[The main thing is to make the main thing the main thing]] * [[Try not to touch the wheel]] * [[Use the Dream-Plan-Ask framework for career 1x1s]] ### Readwise/Articles * [[1,000 True Fans]]