JR Tashjian

Computers are for humans

jrtashjian — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:14:00 +0000

It’s the responsibility of programmers to make computers smarter, to expose more of their functionality to humans in intuitive ways, and not the responsibility of people to bend to the arbitrary demands of computers.

via Computers are for humans.

It’s a rally not a race.

jrtashjian — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:09:02 +0000

If you sprint everyday trying to do something that’s going to take a year, you are going to burn out.
– Merlin Mann

Procrastination

jrtashjian — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:21:17 +0000

Procrastination is what happens when you temporarily forget who you are, what you should pay attention to and what your options are for doing something about it.
– Merlin Mann

There’s no speed limit.

jrtashjian — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:12:11 +0000

“the standard pace is for chumps”

via There’s no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.) | Derek Sivers.

Advice From An Old Programmer

jrtashjian — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:55:30 +0000

Which programming language you learn and use doesn’t matter. Do not get sucked into the religion surrounding programming languages as that will only blind you to their true purpose of being your tool for doing interesting things.

via Advice From An Old Programmer — Learn Python The Hard Way, 2nd Edition.

Forget Self-Improvement

jrtashjian — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:27:35 +0000

Most of us want to finish the race, but see running as a chore. A few dream about being great authors, but find the writing itself to be slow and difficult. Some of us learn all we can about starting a company, only to hit a wall when it comes time to get down to work.

via Forget Self-Improvement – Deliberatism.

How To Work From Home Like You Mean It

jrtashjian — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:02:15 +0000

If you lack for an awesome project, or a sense of where the work in front of you is going to take you, that’s probably the reason you’ll do anything other than what you have to do.

via How To Work From Home Like You Mean It | Fast Company.

PHP 5.4 vs 5.3

jrtashjian — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:21:57 +0000

PHP 5.4 benchmarks are showing significant speed and memory improvements.

php.internals: Re: PHP 5.4 Benchmarks.

Just Fucking Sell

jrtashjian — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:32:37 +0000

For a company to be successful there are literally only two functions the company has to perfect. Building and Selling. Thats it. Metrics and analytics are only the score card, the reporting mechanism to determine if what you are building will sell, and what you are selling is worth building.

via Just Fucking Sell.

The one shot world – a case for career entrepreneurship and casual experimentation

jrtashjian — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:56:42 +0000

Experimentation, quantity, and a propensity for shipping outperform obsession over a single piece.

via The one shot world – a case for career entrepreneurship and casual experimentation – The Startup Toolkit Blog.