Jimmy Cerone
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
Jimmy Cerone
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…
“You deserve to be loved and chosen — not almost loved, or almost chosen. ... Have the courage to let go of the people who leave your heart confused. Let go of the people who make you feel like you are compromising all that you desire, and all that you hope for, and all of the goodness and the beauty that you know exists in this world, for a skinny
... See moreFS (Farnam Street) • Brain Food: Letting Go
Both in the United States and in the European Union, buildings account for about 40 percent of total primary energy consumption
Vaclav Smil • Numbers Don't Lie
Two challenges: first, yes, this does make life harder for Slack etc, but, if we took this logic at face value then your word processor would not be allowed to include a spell checker and your spreadsheet could not do charts (in the 1980s both of these were separate purchases). What’s the coherent theory for how we choose the trade-off between
... See moreBenedict Evans • Benedict's Newsletter: No. 547
The EU is doing things, but not the right things, about anti-trust. What’s a better way of framing this? More specific and less subjective?
The world’s financial system is predicated on the U.S. government being definitionally zero credit risk when denominated in dollars. Every other kind of debt in the world is defined in reference to a Treasury.
Bits about Money • The Business of Check Cashing
Yikes. How do other countries do this? How does China?
For example, I’d argue that discipline is more important than passion, because there’s no controlling what you’re passionate about. I actually really struggle to work on projects I’m not excited about, because I’m not particularly disciplined.
Josh Comeau • “I Don’t Get Excited About It”
Surprised by this. What does it mean? Not sure yet.
“It's tough to be good at something you're not interested in. It's nearly impossible to be great at something you're not obsessed with.”
FS (Farnam Street) • Brain Food: Maximum Flexibility
Really getting me thinking, especially as I watch Brooklyn 99 and The Bear, both shows where people give a huge shit about what they do.
We are so obsessed with seeing if AI can do the things we do, but the real potential is things humans are in capable of. What can’t you do that is now possible? 
means that Meta is only allowed to show ads that are entirely un-targeted, or perhaps only targeted by country. Such ads, as most readers will understand, would be almost entirely worthless. For reference, the EU is about 10% of Meta’s ad revenue (‘Europe’ is larger, but is broader than the EU.