Jimmy Cerone
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
Jimmy Cerone
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.
A sense of dread as I see this. We are slowly seeing the end of the open web.
- AI search powered experiences take away clicks from high quality publishers in aggregate +
- Crawlbots from AI companies not playing by the rules
leading to
- High quality publishers are looking to... See more
Vivek Raghunathanx.comScary to imagine this world and even scarier to see it happening right in front of us.
It would be a lot easier to expand our use of solar and wind energy if we had better ways to store the large quantities of electricity we’d need to cover gaps in the flow of that energy.
Vaclav Smil • Numbers Don't Lie
If you're struggling with negative thoughts, achieving flow is probably the best medicine. Contrary to popular wisdom, forced positive thinking often makes things worse.
LessWrong • How to Be Happy - LessWrong
In addition, if you can code 10x as fast, you also get to do 10x as much coding practice, which will probably lead to yet more improvements.
scattered-thoughts.net • Scattered Thoughts: Speed matters
So few people think to upgrade how they move around their computer, but it can have huge impacts
Don’t debate, if the data is available (get the data first, then discuss)
Shaan Puri • 5 Tweet Tuesday - July 9, 2024
I forgot this constantly. Switch and Decisive by the Heaths mean I should know better by now.
Air conditioning is a good example of a fixable problem. One of the biggest issues with AC is that most countries don’t set minimum standards for energy efficiency; of course, people tend to buy cheaper models, which often have very poor efficiency. If policies were updated, the energy demand caused by AC units would drop by 45 percent by 2050.
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (Random House Large Print)
Perhaps the simplest and best definition of wisdom I’ve heard is “knowing what information is important.” This kind of knowing is not solely done in the intellect. Data is constantly being fed into your unconscious, then cross referenced against your experience.