Jimmy Cerone
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
Jimmy Cerone
“I had a period after I left a restaurant I was working at,” Redzepi said, “where everyone treated me as if I was a stranger to them. *Leave. Stay away. Now we’re competitors.*That kind of thing. And it was a terrible experience. It was just a terrible experience. And I promised myself never to be that. Never to create that experience for anyone
... See moreBilly Oppenheimer • SIX at 6: Assembling Firewood, Periods of Frustration, a Failure and a Loser, Shadow Careers, René Redzepi, and What All Persons Must Think
It’s funny we don’t think of employment experiences as UX, but they are, and perhaps the most important of UX experiences.
The web hasn’t had its artisanal moment. Right now, giant, ad-based networks created by six men that everyone begrudgingly uses with diminishing emotional returns, control the vast majority of the web.
Sublime • Notes on Scale + Quality
Oh this is it. This is the way to brand this. Artisanal.
If it had occurred to anyone to edit the binary to increment the version number, they could have pushed out a good update in a minute instead of an hour, which would have kept the issue from spreading to more than 0.06% of their users, instead of sending 2% of their users a broken update1
danluu.com • Editing Binaries
Getting to the bottom of things
Wild to imagine doing this now. I would love to reach that skill level.
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.
Long 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 moreBilly Oppenheimer • SIX at 6: Assembling Firewood, Periods of Frustration, a Failure and a Loser, Shadow Careers, René Redzepi, and What All Persons Must Think
The more I learn, the straight forward path is the way of the few. Meandering success is more likely.
“You want to frame your goals in terms of “do” behaviors versus “don’t” behaviors. It’s easier to measure progress when engaging in proactive decisions or proactive behaviors rather than abstaining from things. You say, “Okay, I want to be a runner. I’m going to start by running half a mile every day.” That’s going to be easier to track than “I’m
... See moreFS (Farnam Street) • Brain Food: Letting Go
just starting to get the hang of this. spent so much of my life avoiding it’s kind of mind blowing to think in terms of doing instead.
In this instance, it’ll involve a mix of ingenuity around supply chains (like using blockchain to improve traceability) and materials science (like using alternatives such as niobium from Canada or Brazil).
International Intrigue • 🌍 Tantalising
Supply chain is going to be everything when it comes to renewables. How do we make it sustainable and ethical to make energy sustainable?
