Jimmy Cerone
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
Jimmy Cerone
“I don’t think we talk enough about the in betweens. The part when you know you want to change something but don’t yet know how, don’t yet feel strong enough, don’t yet know what your first step is. So to the people in the in betweens, don’t be disheartened, don’t give up. You’ve done the hard part. Now just take it one small step at a time.
– allyi
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.
There’s also a great anecdote from Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman, where he talks about how physics used to delight him when he used to play with it, but then it started to disgust him when he got burdened by this idea that he was obligated to advance the future of science. That he was supposed to be doing “important” work.
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visakan veerasamy • Article
I fall into the trap of optimizing all the time…
Monbiot compares the state of today’s global food system with the global financial system of 2008. According to his research, there has been an incredible corporate consolidation that massively increased the vulnerability of the system, stating that, for example, just four companies control 90% of the global grain trade.
Dense Discovery • 241 / The emergence of ‘the global standard diet’
.2023-06-29
There is research showing that when we introduce what are known as “emergency reserves,” basically “get out of jail free” cards, into the process of goal setting, we’re much more likely to stay the course and to reach those goals.
FS (Farnam Street) • Brain Food: Letting Go
can’t believe I never thought of this. I do it when budgeting, never imagined doing it for goals.
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
I am a big believer that travel doesn’t relieve your problems, it throws them into relief. You see your life in a new light and new shadows. The desert light can be good for this.
Austin Kleon • Land of Enchantment
I feel the same way about the desert. I need to go at least once a year.
If you think about a car or a PC – they’re not trying to get you to use the car or the PC as much as possible. The purchase is the purpose. But the predominant business model of the digital age — advertising — incentivizes consuming more, faster.
Sublime • Notes on Scale + Quality
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.