Jimmy Cerone
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
Jimmy Cerone
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.
I don’t think of Airbnb or Amazon as search apps. They help me get things or book homes. You might want to your search app to be a destination for something
Daniel • A New Google | Daniel Gross
.2022-10-15
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?
Along with many of the same fear-based questions Gilbert talked about, Hasan said people would always ask if he thought he was actually going to make it as a hugely successful comedian. “I don’t like that question,” he said. “I fundamentally don’t like that question.” Because that question implies that he was doing comedy as a means to some end
... See moreBilly Oppenheimer • SIX at 6: Aren’t You Afraid?, Vampire Weekend, Who Cares?, Like a Rolling Stone, House Money, and Hemingway
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
The EC, to my eyes, is saying that it’s illegal for a successful platform to adapt and evolve. Or at the very least they’re saying they might deem it illegal.
John Gruber • European Commission Launches Investigation Against Microsoft for Integrating Teams With Office
I think the bone I have to pick here is the choice of areas to legislate. What about Ad Tech? Search? These are much more concerning monopolies.
Of course, the reality is more complex, and it’s better to think in terms of automation and autocomplete than vertical software and replacing designers, but whole layers of grunt work will be removed, just as they were with GUIs and SQL.
Benedict Evans • Benedict's Newsletter: No. 547
Not sure if this is positive, but the most coherent take on AI I’ve seen so far. Realistic but not panicked.
Great artists don’t study art history to figure out what art to create.
Great founders don’t analyze the market to figure out what product to build.
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