Jimmy Cerone
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
Jimmy Cerone
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
I feel this, but at the same time see myself slipping it into all the time.
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 moreLong 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 moreThe more I learn, the straight forward path is the way of the few. Meandering success is more likely.
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.
“So it’s not the beauty itself we admire. It’s not the force of intellect. It’s not invention, aesthetics, or capacity itself. The greatest talent that we think a man can have?” He plucked one final string. “Seems to me that it must be nothing more than novelty.”
This is part of the trouble with breaking patterns, especially a pattern of chasing novelty. Consistency helps break patterns but we crave novelty.
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.
can’t believe I never thought of this. I do it when budgeting, never imagined doing it for goals.
The metrics are terrible. The format itself is monolithic and static, and very un-digital. It’s as though, instead of the web, which is after all an open, composable, extensible, programmable network, we were all using random FTP apps from indie developers to download PDFs to read, and those FTP apps each had their own Yahoo-like hand-written
... See morePodcasts might be the space with the most room for UX innovation around.