innovation culture
Working hard at the process and being relaxed about the outcome are NOT contradictory -Unknown
Anson Yu's Site
Web developer's oath
Before the exercises, let me remind what you promised at the end of the previous part.
Programming is hard, that is why I will use all the possible means to make it easier
Before the exercises, let me remind what you promised at the end of the previous part.
Programming is hard, that is why I will use all the possible means to make it easier
- I will have my browser developer console open all the time
- I progress with small steps
- I will write lots of console.log statements to make sure I understand how
Fullstack part2 | Rendering a collection, modules
I wish patronage were widely adopted as an explicit social norm. So-called “gentleman scientists” and patron-funded scientists, such as Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton, were behind some of the biggest scientific advancements in the 17th through 19th centuries. I think we got a little confused with the introduction of crowdfunding in the early... See more
Nadia Asparouhova • Nadia Asparouhova on antimemetics, nuclear mysticism, and scrolling
This essay argues that intelligence is not defined by what a system stores or how it computes, but by what it can access and stage into use under constraints of cost, availability, and time . Storage is cheap. Computation is cheaper still. The real bottleneck—the hard part—is memory access. And where the cost is, intelligence is.
To Know is to Stage
The West Coast quiet served its purpose. In isolation I developed theories about creativity and collaboration. But theories only get you so far on their own. At some point you have to go beyond putting ideas into the world and get to work manifesting them.
My year of releasing differently
What would it look like if, in a McLuhan-esque, medium is the message sort of way, our tools said to us:
It’s gonna take you a while.
It’s normal to take a while.
It’d be weird if you made something beautiful so quickly.
The problem isn’t that you’re not working fast enough.
The problem is your expectations are not realistic.
Our AI helps you slow the... See more
It’s gonna take you a while.
It’s normal to take a while.
It’d be weird if you made something beautiful so quickly.
The problem isn’t that you’re not working fast enough.
The problem is your expectations are not realistic.
Our AI helps you slow the... See more
Sari Azout • What Does Slow AI Look Like?
A guide on how to do great work, from someone who has clearly done it himself.
There are patterns to great work — it would be wise to at least experiment with them for yourself!
Andrew Rose • Introducing the Fractal University Canon
2. Most of the newcomers to the realization that govt is paralyzed (Ezra Klein, Dunkelman etc) think that the red tape jungle can be pruned, or organized with better feedback loops (Pahlka). This is falling into Gore's pit. There's a fatal defect: the operating system is designed around legal compliance--instead of human authority to make tradeoff... See more
Free market logic describes how the laws of supply and demand incentivize providing the best goods at the lowest prices. But custom means economic decisions are made unthinkingly, outsourced to tradition, which might be political, ideological, or even aesthetic in origin. By law and in practice, the entire U.S. banking system has been fully... See more