Daniel Quiceno
Paul Graham’s Startup Advice for the Lazy. Jim Carrey's Secret of Life - Inspiring Message. What Functional Programming Is + Why It Makes You Better (blog.functionalworks.com) – danielquiceno's highlights. One of the biggest mistakes I’ve made in my career — Twenty Years in the Valley. I wrote scripts in my Director project so “menus” would open, showing proposed changes to terminology and keyboard shortcuts. I toggled “buttons” on and off and put cursors on the screen to mimic tool selections or palette behaviors. I made it possible to drag a “palette” around on the screen. (These things were often nothing more than rectangles filled with simple text or pixel perfect palette mockups inside them.) I had gotten enough basics and flow working with simple effects that I was about to embark on the process of scripting the tab palettes to mimic the collapse behavior, which only Photoshop had at the time. Basically, I started to make a lightweight prototype, one that did just enough to render my ideas with interaction instead of just static mockups — the equivalent of what some designers do today with Invision or Framer.
To back up even further for a moment, I should note that my design training actually started out in theater. Back to that weekend in 1995. I shrugged. I’m 28, I just quit my tech job, and I never want another job again. June 12, 2015, was my last day as a programmer for a Bay Area tech company. I gave them four years of my life, making their website faster and making fellow developers' jobs easier. I left knowing I don't want to get another job in tech. I don't want another job at all. It's not that I don't like programming. I love programming. I want to do way more of it. Therein lies the problem: Those are some big dreams, and they have very little in common with my employer's dreams.
How did I get here? This is a strange place to be, and when I look back, it's not quite obvious how I ended up here. So I'm not all that special. My partner and I live fairly frugally, too, which made this a much simpler decision — and we could still do much better on that front. Work turned into a constant gloomy interruption The first rumblings of job dissatisfaction came a few years ago, when I realized I was dreading even thinking about complex and thorny problems during my off hours. (Eevee) The turning point What now? Spiritual Highlights 1: “Young man seize every moment of your time, the days fly by, ere long too you shall grow old, if you believe me not, see here in the courtyard how the frost glitters white and cold and cruel on the grass that once was green”. -Zen poem God favours those that strive, he favours not those who do not strive.God, Allah, The Universe, The Akashic felid, the Collective Unconscious awaits your command.
You, my friend, are at the helm, you are the driver — the steering of the wheels in this brief span of incarnation. The more you strive, the more you are favoured, the less you strive, the less you are favoured.Those that have, are given more; those that have not, it is taken away from them.Your fortune is determined by your actions Strive and make good.Don’t strive and be afraid… Be terrified, because all too soon you will be at the end of your allotted time and that could be another seventy years or another seven seconds. did we do enough? “Am I living enough? Are you really working hard enough Geoff?? The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and The Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long.
By Maria Popova “The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today… The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.” “How we spend our days,” Annie Dillard memorably wrote in her soul-stretching meditation on the life of presence, “is, of course, how we spend our lives.” And yet most of us spend our days in what Kierkegaard believed to be our greatest source of unhappiness — a refusal to recognize that “busy is a decision” and that presence is infinitely more rewarding than productivity. I frequently worry that being productive is the surest way to lull ourselves into a trance of passivity and busyness the greatest distraction from living, as we coast through our lives day after day, showing up for our obligations but being absent from our selves, mistaking the doing for the being.
Despite a steadily swelling human life expectancy, these concerns seem more urgent than ever — and yet they are hardly unique to our age. Seneca writes: Thanks, Liz.
My 16 highlights (5m summary of 8m story) Hubquery. Programming. PMP. You Can’t Understand China’s Slowdown Without Understanding Supply Chains. The last few weeks have brought news of turmoil in China, including currency devaluations, an economic slowdown, and a stock market plunge. Most economists, including those at the the IMF, think it is premature to talk about an economic crisis.
While I agree, I nonetheless believe that the slowdown is due, in part, to an acceleration of “near-shoring,” the practice of producing closer to the customer. My evidence is a series of separate surveys conducted by different organizations, including the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation. The MIT Forum launched an online survey in 2012 to understand what U.S. manufacturers were doing about bringing production back to the United States and what factors were driving their decision process.
One-hundred fifty-six U.S. manufacturing companies, defined as firms that have their headquarters in the United States, responded. The resulting report, U.S. Re-shoring: A Turning Point, indicated some shift in manufacturing footprint. Oil prices. Risk. Highexistence. I love the image, but also agree the language is hard to swallow. I too make my own context; “Imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence,” (If you don’t want to be the horse’s hoofprints you’ve got to be the hooves”), serves me better when I think of myself as the architect of my own destiny, that in serving others I am becoming more real, transcending time and space, becoming eternal; the true aim of all temporal personal beings.
I love the image, but also agree the language is hard to swallow. I too make my own context; "Imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence," (If you don't want to be the horse's hoofprints you've got to be the hooves"), serves me better when I think of myself as the architect of my own destiny, that in serving others I am becoming more real, transcending time and space, becoming eternal; the true aim of all temporal personal beings. An honest guide to the San Francisco startup life. My company shares its office with two other companies — Buildzoom and Flexport. Judging from their names, Buildzoom manufactures high precision microscopes and Flexport ships fluorine to dentists in China. We all have a common investor named YC. YC is the venture capital arm of the YMCA.
They invest in a lot of companies every year, many that seem outrageous on paper. Now, you must be thinking — “Isn’t it stupid to judge a company by its name?” Evernote makes note taking appsOptimizely lets you optimize your websitesGoogle lets you google anything on the Internet Our office, like most modern startup offices, has an open floor plan. The noise mandates that you wear headphones while working. Beats headphones: You are wasting your life’s earnings on fashion, hopelessly trying to look like a cool teenager.Headphones that come with your phone: You value a simple life.
An assorted collection of desks and chairs adorns our office. Highexistence. The Key to Success Posted by Jordan Share This Tweet This Have a comment? Sign In or Create an Account ‘4Chan user writes how to get motivated’ by DrBarrel (reddit) The best argument against cannabis ‘causing’ schizophrenia is… Heart vs. Head at the Workplace Join HE. How to Read the 3 Signs Telling You Your Purpose in Life. Join Entrepreneur and today's most influential business innovators in Denver, May 4.
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