I keep seeing Darius Foroux's writing showing up as a Pocket recommendation through Firefox. Recently, "The Purpose Of Life Is Not Happiness: It’s Usefulness" was the top recommendation. It ends on this note: "Don’t take it too seriously. Don’t overthink it. Just DO something that’s useful. Anything." Being contrary, it reminded me of this famous … Continue reading !(Usefulness > Happiness)
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Swallowing the Elephant (Part 1)
"Years ago while interning in the rendering group at Pixar, I learned an important lesson: “interesting” things almost always come to light when a software system is given input with significantly different characteristics than it’s seen before. Even for well-written and mature software systems, new types of input almost always expose heretofore unknown shortcomings in … Continue reading Swallowing the Elephant (Part 1)
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