Jake
@jake
writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.
Jake
jakeweber.net
- The physical world and the cognitive worlds become linked through metaphors.
from Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis by Victor MacGill
- As soon as you start asking questions, you have an obligation to listen to the answers.
from How to Read Plato by Ted Gioia
- What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
from All you need is links
- A scorecard consists of outcomes and personality traits you’re optimizing for when considering opening up a role at your organization.
from Everything I Wish I Knew About Hiring
- Problems should come from success, or being on the brink of success rather than being invented by some intellectual quest.
from Everything I Wish I Knew About Hiring
- If you're small, you're in a position where it's to your advantage to be weird—you can have a point of view that the big tech companies never could. In the world of chairs—you're not going to build a cheaper chair than Ikea. Why not build something they couldn't—like a more interesting one?
from No More Boring Apps | (Not Boring) Software by (Not Boring) Software Inc.
