What is a claim?

An assertion, usually of the form that some thing causes some other effect.

Should come with supporting as well as contrary links. Links can be notes, books, videos, or academic articles.

• working in public is better for everyone
• USB webcams are crap
• US politics is a virus
• Truth is a gradient, not a dichotomy
• Side projects are 100x more impactful than corporate work
• Humans are lazy by default because we evolved during calorie scarcity
• High quality audio makes you sound smarter
• Google services are risky to use
• Chinese Communist party cannot be trusted
• Your news feed should be small enough to finish
• You should give your notes titles
• Writing sharpens your thinking
• Writing about what hurts improves mental health
• Writing new notes is better than deleting old ones
• Working hard without payoff causes burnout
• Workers who don't drive to work should not own a car
• Workarounds become reflexes
• Wood fireplaces suck
• Windows has problems
• We build our own cages
• The value of software engineering is not code but skilled workers
• The more important the decision the less you should take other people's word for it
• Tetris can cure PTSD
• Talking fast suppresses the listener
• Tabs should not stay open
• Tab indents are superior to space indents
• Sympathising is hard when we're grieving
• Superstition has advantages
• Support for new ideas is strongly correlated with worker productivity
• Staying at the same company is bad for the employee
• Souls-like games help depression
• Smartphones are bad for reading
• Sighted humans judge competence and virtue from appearance
• Rewarding others is 10x better than punishing them
• Resumes are about story
• Regular easy exercise is best for muscle strength
• Recycling plastic is a myth
• Reading without reflecting is time wasting
• Punctuation approximations are ugly and confusing
• Procrastination is a fear response
• Practice creates felt expertise
• People who claim to hate poetry are usually mistaken
• Notes should disregard the public
• Noise makes you more productive
• Naming your struggles makes them easier to beat
• Monoculture lawns are a waste of time and money
• Mess is caused by a mismatch of input and output
• Long hiring processes alienate candidates
• Lists without explanations are terrible
• Large cars kill more pedestrians without making driver safer
• key resellers are thieves
• Information makes you smart, infinite scroll makes you stupid
• Information is more valuable than physical cargo
• Imperfect priorities are the most productive
• Human memory is unreliable
• High blood glucose can decrease sexual function
• Gmail is a bad email provider
• Git is hard to learn and use
• Frequency of loving gestures is more important than size
• Free time slips away if you don't manage it
• Fantasy epics lack love
• facts do not change minds
• Expressing appreciation for others improves life for both
• Enthusiasm and Skepticism are both necessary, and at odds
• Elderly are vulnerable to scams
• Eating small meals stabilises blood glucose
• Drivers are untrustworthy
• Documentation needs to be reviewed
• Destructive code must be tested
• Depression increases susceptibility to fake news
• Decreasing work load can hurt your career
• Consent is a learnable skill
• Concise writing takes longer to write, but is worth it
• Completely free speech means only the loudest speak
• Chaos is felt less by those creating it
• Cars make cities undesirable
• 2022-07-26
• Bookmarks bring misery
• Bad tools limit the quality of your work
• American trucks and SUVs are toxic shit
• Alcohol is bad for you
• Overcollecting contributes to impostor syndrome
• Earned structure
• Hoarding knowledge gives the illusion of knowledge
• You’ll only see your loved ones a few more times
• Your diet sets your happiness
• You work 20% more than you can safely handle
• You should link your notes
• Writing well lets you take peaceful vacations
• we don't play with our friends because there are too many games
• Vancouver is the best city in North America
• US drinking water contains forever chemicals
• US healthcare is designed to gouge money from the sick
• Titles are a promise of good content
• Reviews are often fake
• Republican philosophy is blind love and hate
• Product quality is not something you add later
• priorities can change no matter how strongly we feel about them
• Perfection is pure fiction
• People who use social media for validation are less likely to admit fault
• PC gaming requires 8 CPU cores
• Paywalls and low incomes cause fake news to spread
• PascalCase and camelCase suck, kebab and snake are better
• Noise pollution makes us unwell
• News is a waste of time
• Low status males are more toxic to prevent change in hierarchy
• LED light at night increases cancer risk
• Learning styles don't exist
• Its expensive to be poor
• If you need more than 6 levels of headings, you might want an outliner
• Givers must learn limits since takers won't
• Folders are too much work
• feedback is better than advice
• Explorers are bad leaders
• Executive function tends to be harmed by playing videogames
• Evil behaviours are survival instincts
• Feelings are not up for debate
• Every win is worth celebrating
• Every productivity system stops working eventually
• Energy is often more limiting than time
• Emailing after an interview raises your chances
• DONE lists are better than TODO lists
• debate is a poor method of truth seeking
• Cycling is more important than electric vehicles for reducing emissions
• credit card churning is a bad idea
• Constraints improve creativity
• Chopping broccoli before you cook it reduces cancer risk
• Cheese induces vivid dreams
• Backlinks should include context
• announcing goals for likes can over-inflate your sense of progress
• An armed society is paranoid
• All failure is systems failure
• Ad blocking makes the free internet worse