⭐️ Sourcegraph: Devs are managing 100x more code now than they did in 2010
⭐️ Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation
⭐️ ADHD-Alien: unhealthy hyperfocus
The Attention Economy
(via This Is Colossal)
⭐️ React is a subsidy
⭐️ How to make an RTMP Streaming Server and Player with a Raspberry Pi
Music Theory is Racist
⭐️ Being OK With Not Being Extraordinary
Bookmarked: Being OK With Not Being Extraordinary
The internet always highlights the first place winners, the billionaires, the award-winning artists, the best-selling authors, the largest philanthropists, the extraordinary. Their stories are ones of success, of inspiration. They show us what is possible, and push us to achieve more.
But I don’t feel inspired when I see extraordinary. I feel disappointed, jealous. My constant exposure to these amazing stories of success has normalized the extraordinary. I started comparing myself to these “normal” extraordinary people, and wondered why I was not them. This disappointment would incite me to take action, but after a few days of hard work, I would just quit. Quitting was easier; it helped me avoid thinking about the extraordinary and the negative dark clouds that I had shrouded it with.
A good essay on the need to escape the mental trap of comparing yourself to others.