Related: The Middleman Economy (book) and EconTalk episode.

To tie the two comments together explicitly: an n-person meeting, with each person giving an update, requires nx clock-minutes, and each clock minute spends n person-minutes, leading to (n^2)x person-minutes in an n-person meeting.

You're looking for this section, btw

user:annasalamon burning man. Sadly, it doesn't like we support quotes with user: searches. I'll file a bug about it

I think most of the value is in the publishing, rather than the amount of content. I think probably the word minimum should be less. If I look through world spirit sock puppet (IMO a great blog), the majority of the posts seem to be <500 words. It's possible that it's just too hard to police quality, or at least effort, with shorter posts. In that case, maybe it's worth increasing the proof of work.

If the oxytocin receptor doesn't work, this won't do much

(FWIW, I've referenced that post 2-4 times since it was posted)

The biggest surprise to me was that every company was not already doing this—isn’t it the obvious thing to do? WTF do they teach in business school?

I wonder how this system would perform if charged with all the overhead costs for implementing such fine-grained tracking? Seems pretty tricky to answer I guess. It requires the counterfactual of not using the system at all.

Yeah I think

And! Once you know whether your mirror is foggy, there's basically nothing left to learn about the temperature by observing your skin (and vice versa).

is supposed to be scoped under the "Suppose that" from the beginning of the paragraph

I believe there's been a local increase in bugs since switching to Vercel. It would be shocking if that weren't true! It was a major website port. That said, I think the general bugginess of the website has been trending down over time, and this local increase is only equivalent to 1-3 years of regression.