{"id":2950,"date":"2019-12-21T22:33:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T06:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2019-12-21T22:33:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T06:33:45","slug":"links-12-21-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/21\/links-12-21-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Links: 12-21-2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/genius.html\">The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius<\/a><br \/>      Quote: &quot;I&#8217;ve always liked Hamming&#8217;s famous double-barrelled question: what are the most important problems in your field, and why aren&#8217;t you working on one of them? It&#8217;s a great way to shake yourself up. But it may be overfitting a bit. It might be at least as useful to ask yourself: if you could take a year off to work on something that probably wouldn&#8217;t be important but would be really interesting, what would it be?&quot;<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/ideas\">ideas<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/innovation\">innovation<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/time\">time<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/focus\">focus<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/24ways.org\/2019\/microbrowsers-are-everywhere\/\">Microbrowsers are Everywhere &#9670; 24 ways<\/a><br \/>      First I&#8217;ve heard the name&#8230; but immediately recognized the role they play.<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/browser\">browser<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/microbrowser\">microbrowser<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/html\">html<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2019\/Dec\/10\/better-presentations\/\">Better presentations through storytelling and STAR moments<\/a><br \/>      Quote: &quot;Every talk should start with an AIM: Audience, Intent, Message. Who are the audience for the talk? What do you intend to achieve by giving the presentation? With those two things in mind, you can construct the message&mdash;the actual content of the talk. Try to include at least one STAR moment&mdash;Something They&rsquo;ll Always Remember. This can be a gimmick, a repeated theme, a well-selected video or audio clip. Something to help the talk stand out. The human brain is incredibly attuned to stories. If you can find an excuse to tell a story, no matter how thin that excuse is, take it.&quot;<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/presentations\">presentations<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/story\">story<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/speaking\">speaking<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/patrickcollison.com\/bookshelf\">Bookshelf &middot; Patrick Collison<\/a><br \/>      holy shit what a reading list.<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/reading\">reading<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattlayman.com\/blog\/2019\/failed-saas-postmortem\">A Failed SaaS Postmortem &middot; Matt Layman<\/a><br \/>      Quote: &quot;Where I was horribly wrong was in thinking that Ember and Semantic were the only pieces of new technology that I needed. The list was so much longer and included:  Datadog for infrastructure monitoring. DigitalOcean for virtual machine hosting. Django REST Framework for APIs. Drip for marketing email campaigns. Jekyll for the marketing site. JSON API as a communication protocol. Let&#8217;s Encrypt for TLS certificates. Mailgun for transactional emails. Mixpanel for behavior analysis. Rollbar for error tracking. Segment for data aggregation. Stripe for recurring payments. wal-e for database backups. webpack for JavaScript asset bundling&quot;<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/innovation-tokens\">innovation-tokens<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/technology\">technology<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius Quote: &quot;I&#8217;ve always liked Hamming&#8217;s famous double-barrelled question: what are the most important problems in your field, and why aren&#8217;t you working on one of them? It&#8217;s a great way to shake yourself up. But it may be overfitting a bit. It might be at least as useful to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/21\/links-12-21-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links: 12-21-2019<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2951,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions\/2951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}