Jimmy Cerone
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
Jimmy Cerone
Train yourself to love the feeling of constantly learning and pushing your boundaries. Feeling comfortable is the system blinking orange , and it should make you uneasy.
charity.wtf • The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business)
"If you could just change one thing in your child’s life, it would be to give them autonomy. Humans spent 200,000 years as hunter-gatherers. That’s where our brains evolved. That’s where we evolved in this context. If you look on lots of different continents, children have enormous amounts of autonomy in these communities, which implies that that’s
... See moreFS (Farnam Street) • Brain Food: Maximum Flexibility
Thinking more about this idea since it came up in the Bear Season 2 as well. I’ll struggle with this.
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
... See moreBilly Oppenheimer • SIX at 6: Assembling Firewood, Periods of Frustration, a Failure and a Loser, Shadow Careers, René Redzepi, and What All Persons Must Think
Most of us fall into one of two camps regarding our money: We either ignore it and feel guilty, or we obsess over financial details by arguing interest rates and geopolitical risks without taking action.
Ramit Sethi • I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Second Edition: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works
The vision was always just out of reach, because the tech was just out of reach.
Yet today, Apple is selling a technically flawless pen computing system in the Pencil and the iPad, and no-one cares.
Benedict Evans • Benedict's Newsletter: No. 546
Wild to see that we can perfect a form of UX and find it largely useless
In addition, if you can code 10x as fast, you also get to do 10x as much coding practice, which will probably lead to yet more improvements.
scattered-thoughts.net • Scattered Thoughts: Speed matters
So few people think to upgrade how they move around their computer, but it can have huge impacts
The presence of many nice-enough choices without any meaningful way to distinguish among them is a fundamental dysphoria of modern consumerism. Anybody can track in intimate detail how the wealthy and stylish spend their money via social media, and just when you’ve learned exactly what you can’t have, the internet swoops in to offer a look-for-less... See more
Amanda Mull • It’s All So … Premiocre
Long before he made movies, after he dropped out of community college, Cameron spent about ten years working low-wage manual labor jobs. He was a truck driver, a school bus mechanic, a high school janitor, a precision tool and die machinist, and so on. “It was a long period of frustration for me in this kind of blue-collar life,” he said. “I was
... See moreBilly Oppenheimer • SIX at 6: Assembling Firewood, Periods of Frustration, a Failure and a Loser, Shadow Careers, René Redzepi, and What All Persons Must Think
The more I learn, the straight forward path is the way of the few. Meandering success is more likely.