Lab notes
Notes on value, design, and the systems we trust.
A working notebook. Ideas are written as they're thought through: some finished, most still in motion.
Tokenomics
We approximate task completion effectiveness by weighting intelligence: every 5 points doubles the quality weight—not a measured success rate. How the…
02Bad Metrics Good Metrics
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0g5liA0nN2UrV3popH7iIr?si=5tfDbCIfS9CZGlSHLFBJhQ&utm source=copy link
03Design
Design is how to create things with many seemingly contradictory requirements. What's the best design to design? Design for humans. Design for the people…
04Displaying Information (nonactionable)
there's linear and non linear display of information linear is like a book non linear is like a newpaper people think in both ways, but information is often…
05Hardware Trust
There's a widespread idea in the technical community that TPMs don't provide any security: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37435450…
06Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
This is a summary of human action by Ludwig von Mises for the purpose of understanding the measurement and meaning of value. Concepts Part One: Human Action…
07Security
anything that isn't as easy as possible to use and secure as possible may as well be a nation state actor acting against you
08Value
Why do people act the way that they do? People do things because they value one end result more than other possible end results . People do things because…
09Work
Credit: https://basecamp.com/shapeup/3.5 chapter 14 Basecamp's Shape Up Book Summary: Fixed time variable scope What will be working and usable at the end?…