Jimmy Cerone
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
Jimmy Cerone
frequently hear myself telling people that I just don’t have enough time to read deeply anymore—“the kids!”, “the startup!”—but if I picked up a book instead of reflexively opening Twitter every couple of hours, I’m sure I would have read my way through a library in the last 10 years.
Hamish McKenzie • Time to read
.2022-10-01 * tell myself it's hard to content switch lol
Global uncertainty has lowered the outlook for diamonds, which account for 80% of Botswana’s exports and a third of its government revenue.
International Intrigue • 🌍 Close Shave
Monbiot compares the state of today’s global food system with the global financial system of 2008. According to his research, there has been an incredible corporate consolidation that massively increased the vulnerability of the system, stating that, for example, just four companies control 90% of the global grain trade.
Dense Discovery • 241 / The emergence of ‘the global standard diet’
.2023-06-29
“A prototype is worth a thousand meetings” (building a simple way to ‘taste test’ is often faster AND better than trying to figure things out in our heads)
Shaan Puri • 5 Tweet Tuesday - July 9, 2024
I need to remember this more when I’m terrified of the imagined scenarios in my head
When making internal decisions about e.g. salary bands, individual exceptions to formal policy, etc, ask each other … if this decision were to leak, could we justify our reasoning with head held high? If you would feel ashamed, or if you really don’t want people to find out about it, it’s probably the wrong decision.
charity.wtf • The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business)
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.
“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 n
... 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.
Though the Chemical Warfare Service ran tests on animals—goats were a favorite—it insisted that all gases and equipment be ultimately tested on humans. Those humans were soldiers, recruited with modest inducements such as extra leave time or appeals to patriotism. They participated in three types of tests. In the drop test, liquid was applied to th
... See moreDaniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
For this reason, I suspect that many of my friends who write and publish rapidly are shortchanging themselves. They generate texts filled with hidden doors and move on before they’ve opened them.
I used to write like a maniac, I’m now trying to slow down for this reason.
If you think about a car or a PC – they’re not trying to get you to use the car or the PC as much as possible. The purchase is the purpose. But the predominant business model of the digital age — advertising — incentivizes consuming more, faster.