Jimmy Cerone
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
Jimmy Cerone
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?
Cut a chrysalis open and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly… No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.
— Pat Barker
— Pat Barker
You can read it as an EU mandate for E2EE - except other parts of the EU are trying to ban E2EE. You can read it as the EU standing up against government surveillance, except that plenty of EU states do this too.
Benedict Evans • Benedict's Newsletter
.2023-06-18
Having a good person express how wonderful you are hundreds of times changes everything.
Scott Galloway • Tethered
When it comes to the quality of our thoughts and judgments, the amount of information a communication medium supplies is less important than the way the medium presents the information and the way, in turn, our minds take it in. The brain's capacity is not unlimited. The passageway from perception to understanding is narrow. It takes patience and
... See moreReminds me of my educational psychology work with the chemistry textbook back in college. Multiple representations of a single topic made more of an impact than explaining a topic ad naseom ever could.
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.
Benedict Evans • Benedict's Newsletter: No. 537
A large percentage of people’s problems in work, love and life are due to some combination of vagueness and passivity. You don’t know what you want to spend your time on; you don’t know what kind of person you really get along with; you don’t know what kind of clothing looks good to you; you don’t know what you value in a city; you don’t know how... See more
Ava • Why You Should Write More
I feel this, but at the same time see myself slipping it into all the time.
by shifting the split to 40, 50, and 10 percent, we could (thanks to grain feed saved by reducing inefficient beef production) produce easily 30 percent more chicken meat and 20 percent more pork, while more than halving beef’s environmental burden—and still supplying at least 10 percent more meat.
Vaclav Smil • Numbers Don't Lie
Wild that something simple could work. But also wild that something as simple as changing our eating habits is so damn hard.
We would all do well to live a little more in tune with our surroundings. That or change our surroundings.