Jimmy Cerone
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
Jimmy Cerone
If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer you have a moral... See more
The need for belonging twists into a form of fearful pre-rejection with the person experiencing an anxious aversion to the presence of others.
Adam Smith • Slaying Your Fear: A guide for people who grapple with insecurity
Freezers, as my Smeg taught me, provoke strong emotions. They are fundamentally for forgetting, the place where we put food we don’t want to think about right now, or want to save for some unspecified later date. They hold our memories, aspirations, and regrets, and in this strange way they tell us who we are.
Rebecca Flint Marx, Eater • On Having Your Cake and Freezing It Too
Much like a good movie, life eventually forces the protagonist (whether it’s you or, say, Tom Cruise) to choose between two irreconcilable goods : a comfortable living, or a clean conscience ( The Firm ); the love of your life, or the job of your dreams ( Jerry Maguire ). And so on. The choices we make reveal who we are.
International Intrigue • 🌍 Tantalising
Surprising insight from this newsletter. Got me thinking about the choices I’ve made in the past.
But while there are thousands of “premium” options when it comes to consuming alcohol, all Nicotine pouches/gum options that exist currently feel low quality/cheap
Jakob Greenfeld • 💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My Favorite Ideas of the Week
Competence is how good you are when there is something to gain. Character is how good you are when there is nothing to gain. People will reward you for competence. But people will only love you for your character.”
FS (Farnam Street) • Brain Food: Action Reduces Fear
Yes, Apple created the iPhone and the App Store and, under current U.S. antitrust doctrine, almost certainly has the right to impose whatever taxes it wishes on third parties, including 30% on purchases and the first year of subscriptions, and completely cutting off developers from their customers. Antitrust law, though, while governed by Supreme
... See moreBen Thompson • United States v. Apple
our laws are so unwieldily that we cannot properly target companies for their anti-trust problems.
A sense of dread as I see this. We are slowly seeing the end of the open web.
- AI search powered experiences take away clicks from high quality publishers in aggregate +
- Crawlbots from AI companies not playing by the rules
leading to
- High quality publishers are looking to... See more
Vivek Raghunathanx.comScary to imagine this world and even scarier to see it happening right in front of us.
The writer Jorge Luis Borges said, “A writer—and, I believe, generally all persons—must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose…All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape
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