Jimmy Cerone
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
Jimmy Cerone
“What I’ve always felt,” Ezra said, “is we don’t try to top a previous album. Instead, we try to continue to reveal the whole. It’s like if you're showing someone around the United States, and you started out in Los Angeles—if the person has never seen the rest of America, they might say, ‘Ok, I get it, America is filled with palm trees, sunshine,
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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
Mormons, Cowboys, the Wild West of Women's Rights
matriarchyreport.substack.commatriarchyreport.substack.comLately, when I’m stuck on a piece, I will print everything I’ve written and re-read it with a pair of scissors in hand. As I go, I will cut out the pieces that feel like they’re working: a phrase here, a sentence there, entire paragraphs if I’m lucky. Then I’ll lay out all the cut-out pieces on my desk and move them around, trying to find the right... See more
Mason Currey • Seek funny leaps
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.
Naval Ravikanttwitter.comThere’s also a great anecdote from Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman, where he talks about how physics used to delight him when he used to play with it, but then it started to disgust him when he got burdened by this idea that he was obligated to advance the future of science. That he was supposed to be doing “important” work.
It’s quite... See more
It’s quite... See more
visakan veerasamy • Article
I fall into the trap of optimizing all the time…
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