Why I Undervalue Fiction and Why You Shouldn’t Move to a Cabin in the Mountains

Plus Saas Economics, why we shouldn’t worry about inflation, and parenting in Italy | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

On Joining Mastodon

From my vast experience of three weeks, a guide to diving in An academic friend asked for help joining Mastodon. I wrote a detailed email in response that I thought it might be useful to others. I'm also going to teach a master class in Mastodon at my school on Dec.(jeffjarvis.me … | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Team Work & Dream Work, An iPhone Pedometer Speaks, & Why Russia is so Big

Plus a dash of the digital impact of China’s Belt & Road Initiative and a thoughtful story from Elon Musk’s first wife | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Friendship

A good friend is sick, and I’ve been thinking about him and friendship more broadly. Friendship is prevalent across hundreds of species —… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

A Beginner’s Guide to Sunsama

I’m a tool fiend. While everyone else partied in college, I stayed up late trying new tools. The fruits of my years of labor? Sunsama.Continue reading on Jimmy on Learning » | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Cognitive Dissonance

Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it seems | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

A Eulogy for Twitter, How to Fix a Bad Personality and a Serbian Deep Dive

Plus Brazil’s innovative financial policies and a dash of the Great Books | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

The Cosmic Opportunity

Time has a lot to do with our perception. Time stands still, yet accelerates. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

AI: The Tech of 2023

We’re in the midst of a great leap forward in AI | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Why I Might Break Up With Twitter, Dispatches from a Cloudless World, and The Black Panthers

Plus, a primer on venture capitalists and the boring tech behind a one person tech company | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

It’s down from its summer peak, but it’s creeping into new sexual networks — ones that will be harder to reach than leather bondage… | Continue reading


@donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com | 2 years ago

What’s Up With Serverless?

“Every new app should start serverless.” | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Hubris

The rich get richer. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Elephants in the Room

Ads have become Big Tech’s Achilles’ heel | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

How to Find Flow: The Levers that Make it Go

My takeaways from Finding Flow and how they helped me get my mojo backContinue reading on Jimmy on Learning » | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

A Quick Start Guide to Ad Tech

Plus lots about latency, why I’m struggling with my Kindle, and a job switch | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Drawing the Line and Our Moral Obligations

Neutrality in the face of evil is not neutrality | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

7 Steps to Product Market Fit

Deciding what to build is the most important step in product development, but almost every team sucks at it. Here are 7 steps to build the… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Finally out of stealth mode: a plea for Quantum Foundations

A personal account on the 2022 Physics Nobel prize | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

The New Setting That’s Keeping Your iPhone from Charging

In iOS 16.1, it’s on by default. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Build your brand like Linus with a bit of marketing insight

One of the biggest things developers can do to stand out doesn’t have anything to do with coding. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Cypress Tests Parallelization in Gitlab CI

An approach to shorten test execution time altogether without spending extra cash on fancy software in the market | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

The Modern Data Stack Through ‘The Gervais Principle’

Data doesn’t move left-to-right in an organization, it moves through Losers, the Clueless, and Sociopaths. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Ethics: Who’s at fault for the missile strike which killed civilians?

Aboard a military ship somewhere around the world, an order is given by a Captain to launch a missile to a designated target. The missile… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Layers of change: How buildings and software are alike

Stewart Brand’s model of how buildings learn applied to product design | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Top Biggest Telecom Outages and how to prevent them

Unlike Enterprise networks , outages in cellular networks are the worse since people’s lives are at stake, be it a outage on data network… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Python List Comprehensions: Yes or No?

List comprehensions are actually nothing but a list() function applied to a generator object. Let’s create a list and a function that takes… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Tesla's New Battery Isn't What They Said It Would Be

Has Tesla pulled a fast one on us? | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Steve Jobs Fleeced Carly Fiorina

The former HP CEO boasted of her friendship with Apple’s leader — but he took her to the cleaners with the iPod | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Time to Get Fit – An Open Letter from Altimeter to Zuck and Meta Board

October 24, 2022 | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Time to Get Fit – An Open Letter to Meta

October 24, 2022 | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Breakthrough Twin-Fuel Hydrogen Engine Could Cause a Revolution

The cheapest way to decarbonise transport? | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

The Comic Misanthrope in a Moral Age

There has been in recent years an interest in enforcing moral correctness on people through the use of the tools that the internet… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

I Got Scammed by a Silicon Valley Startup

Telling my story isn’t going to be easy. Oftentimes I feel embarrassed, enraged, and regretful when I have to relive it, but in the end it… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

A Word of Caution to AngelList LPs

To The AngelList LP Community, | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Rust 1.64 Became 10-20% Faster On Windows

If you are a Rust developer you have most likely celebrated the news that the version 1.64 released on 22/09/2022 is 10-20% faster on… | Continue reading


@tomaszs2.medium.com | 2 years ago

A Software Engineer’s Guide to Cybernetics (2020)

Before ‘cyber’ was a prefix for everything internet and computers, it was how mathematicians were going to conquer the world. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

‘The Sound of Silence’ is a hymn to resistance (2018)

The 1960s hit by Simon & Garfunkel conveys a powerful warning against the dangers of indifference, which still comes in handy today | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

8 Ways I Use HomeBrew on macOS to Increase Productivity

The following is how I use HomeBrew on macOS to install, update, uninstall apps, and much more. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Useful Keyboard Shortcuts on Mac That I Can’t Go Without

These shortcuts improved my productivity by helping me do tasks faster without using mouse, hence less hand/wrist strain. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Building a Set Solver Using Python and OpenCV

Between the end of my summer internship and the beginning of the semester, I built a SET solver: a computer program that took an image or… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Churn

Our leaders are too old | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Writing Spreadsheet Macros with Python

As a Python programmer you have to remember when four years ago Microsoft was considering to introduce Python as a scripting language for… | Continue reading


@tomaszs2.medium.com | 2 years ago

Is Ruby on Rails Still Relevant in 2022?

Over the years, there’s been great controversy on whether or not Ruby on Rails (RoR) is worth learning today. Although, this gem of a… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

WSL 2: Why you should use real Linux instead

I tried my best to use it, got more problems than solutions | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Python Programming Tips that I wish I Knew Sooner

I used to be confused about some aspects of the Python programming language, but now it makes much more sense! | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

My New Approach for Project Management, Jeff Bezos is not Scott Galloway’s Astronaut, and a New…

Plus a deep dive into natural language processing and a hot take on today’s media problems | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

The Exploding Ford Pinto of 1973 (2021)

Greed, malice and incompetence in car design | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago