ok now it’s a party
Bad defendants make bad law.
Love it. Heard recently for the first time via Alex Stamos on the 8/30 Moderated Content podcast episode on Pavel Durov getting arrested. Sounds like maybe a variation on the hard cases make bad law legal adage?
The Field Notes motto:
I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now.
Unexpected lovely experience at #xoxofest: I’ve worked in climate full time for the last few years, and in health and bioinformatics for many years before that, and I got to share those experiences with very competent, interested people and encourage them to join in themselves.
There are lots of wonderful climate scientists, doctors, and researchers. They’re hungry to work with good tech people to build new and better tools. You don’t need any domain knowledge; your tech skills alone are enough. Jump in, the water’s fine, we need your help!
I’m headed to XOXO 2024 tomorrow! I’m excited, XOXO is legendary, but I’ve never been before, and this is the first one they’ve put on since 2019. I caught it just in time, too, they say this will be the last one ever.
Drop me a line if you’ll be there too, I’d love to say hi!
I think talent is probably overrated.
Talent is fixed mindset. You’re born with it, it’s in your genes, it’s a gift.
Practice is growth mindset. Anyone can learn, put in the work, practice hard, and get better. It takes drive, and some people start out with advantages, but talent isn’t required.
Talent exists, sure. Some people are naturals. But we overestimate its impact. I think much of what we see as talent is actually motivation. When you want something so much that you work day and night at it, that’s hugely powerful, more than anything in your genes. (And maybe that is in your genes!)
Whenever I need to optimize and I think I know where to start, I’m wrong. Not always, but close enough.
Measure first. Then optimize. Every time.
Japanese proverb: 二兎を追う者は一兎をも得ず
(“He who chases after two rabbits will catch neither.”)
Hi all! Time for another regular (ish) Bridgy Fed status update, with big news: we’re bridging web sites to Bluesky!
We’ve supported this on the fediverse for a while, and we’re now doing it for Bluesky too. You can use Bridgy Fed to automatically generate a Bluesky presence for your web site, and you can follow any site that has microformats2 or an RSS or Atom feed. Bridgy Fed extracts profile info, converts blog posts to Bluesky posts, etc.
As examples, check out Nature and Electrek. To get started, enter a web site here.
Beyond that, lots more happened over the last few weeks: Continue reading