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.
- Chaos is felt less by those creating it
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- Bookmarks bring misery
- Bad tools limit the quality of your work
- Alcohol is bad for you
- Overcollecting contributes to impostor syndrome
- Collecting and Hoarding are on the same spectrum
- Earned structure
- You work 20% more than you can safely handle
- You should link your notes
- we don't play with our friends because there are too many games
- Vancouver is the best city in North America
- US healthcare is designed to gouge money from the sick
- US drinking water contains forever chemicals
- Titles are a promise of good content
- Republican philosophy is blind love and hate
- 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
- LED light at night increases cancer risk
- Learning styles don't exist
- Its expensive to be poor
- Givers must learn limits since takers won't
- Folders are too much work
- Feelings are not up for debate
- Executive function tends to be harmed by playing videogames
- Cycling is more important than electric vehicles for reducing emissions
- Constraints improve creativity
- Chopping broccoli before you cook it reduces cancer risk
- Cheese induces vivid dreams
- Backlinks should include context
- All failure is systems failure
- Ad blocking makes the free internet worse
- Completely free speech means only the loudest speak
- Concise writing takes longer to write, but is worth it
- Consent is a learnable skill
- Decreasing work load can hurt your career
- Depression increases susceptibility to fake news
- Documentation needs to be reviewed
- Eating small meals stabilises blood glucose
- Elderly are vulnerable to scams
- Enthusiasm and Skepticism are both necessary, and at odds
- Expressing appreciation for others improves life for both
- Fantasy epics lack love
- Free time slips away if you don't manage it
- Frequency of loving gestures is more important than size
- Git is hard to learn and use
- Gmail is a bad email provider
- High blood glucose can decrease sexual function
- Hoarding others words gives the illusion of knowledge
- Imperfect priorities are the most productive
- Information is more valuable than physical cargo
- Information makes you smart, infinite scroll makes you stupid
- Large cars kill more pedestrians without making driver safer
- Lists without explanations are terrible
- Long hiring processes alienate candidates
- Mess is caused by a mismatch of input and output
- Monoculture lawns are a waste of time and money
- Naming your struggles makes them easier to beat
- Noise makes you more productive
- Notes should disregard the public
- People who claim to hate poetry are usually mistaken
- People who don't use social media for validation are more likely to admit fault
- Placebos are effective
- Pornography hurts male sexual performance while helping female
- Practice creates felt expertise
- Procrastination is a fear response
- Punctuation approximations are ugly and confusing
- Reading without reflecting is time wasting
- Recycling plastic is a myth
- Regular easy exercise is best for muscle strength
- Resumes are about story
- Rewarding others is 10x better than punishing them
- Sighted humans judge competence and virtue from appearance
- Smartphones are bad for reading
- Souls-like games help depression
- Staying at the same company is bad for the employee
- Superstition has advantages
- Sympathising is hard when we're grieving
- Tab indents are superior to space indents
- Tabs should not stay open
- Tetris can cure PTSD
- The more important the decision the less you should take other people's word for it
- The value of software engineering is not code but skilled workers
- Windows has problems
- Wood fireplaces suck
- Workers who don't drive to work should not own a car
- Working hard without payoff causes burnout
- Writing about what hurts improves mental health
- Writing new notes is better than deleting old ones
- Writing sharpens your thinking
- You should give your notes titles
- Your news feed should be small enough to finish
- Chinese Communist party cannot be trusted
- Google services are risky to use
- High quality audio makes you sound smarter
- Humans are lazy by default because we evolved during calorie scarcity
- Side projects are 100x more impactful than corporate work
- Truth is a gradient, not a dichotomy
- US politics is a virus
- USB webcams are crap
- Every productivity system stops working eventually
- Your diet sets your happiness