Jimmy Cerone – Medium

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Discover a New Way to Work Smarter: Swap Dependent and Independent

In many of our lives, we optimize by changing variables. What if we switched them instead? — The Short Version In running there are several independent variables to manipulate to optimize training. Three common ones are time, distance, and pace. A unique way to measure a run is to track heart rate, which is generally considered a dependent variable. In this article, we explore the business equivalents for these running…

Experiments

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Discover a New Way to Work Smarter: Swap Dependent and Independent

Published in Jimmy on Learning

·1 day ago

A New Name, A Single Article, and Lots of Books

I explain the change in name and speculate why I was so book heavy this week — In a remarkable turn of events, I read more books than articles this week. So “Jimmy on Articles” is going to be one article and a few books this week. These are good books and thus I think the trade a worthy one. Before we dive in, you may notice…

Newsletter

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A New Name, A Single Article, and Lots of Books

Published in Jimmy on Learning

·Sep 16

Letting the Chaos Speak, What We Need to Be True, and Learning on the Job

Plus a conversation with Jack Johnson and the world’s most satisfying checkbox — Letting the Chaos Speak for Itself by David Farrier — Farrier always finds the weird. Nothing is stranger than a couple of college students who went viral covering weird events live and unfiltered. What Do We Need to be True? by Rusty Guinn — A fascinating application of David Foster…

Newsletter

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Letting the Chaos Speak, What We Need to Be True, and Learning on the Job

Published in Jimmy and Neil Have Problems

·Sep 15

There’s a lack of good info about local restaurants | Alpha Reflection

Some thoughts about the problem, our solution, and THE FUTURE — The Problem There’s a lack of good info about local restaurants. The best we have at the moment are Yelp and Google Maps. Neither of these gives you any confidence in your choice. They are overwhelming in the number of options and lack credibility. …

Restaurant

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Published in Jimmy on Learning

·Sep 12

Why I’m Using Simple Measurements to Regain My Health

I once ran a 4:35 mile. Now I’ve got a dad bod. Here’s how I’m finding my way back to health. — The Problem 6 years ago, I ran a mile in 4 minutes and 35 seconds. 6 weeks ago, I found out my cholesterol is high, yet again. The first time, I brushed it off as a fluke. How could a guy who ran a 4:35 mile have high cholesterol? If I weren’t…

Health

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Published in Jimmy on Learning

·Sep 10

Why You Should Move to New Hampshire, The Practical Green Deal and Wizardry with Cash Flow

Plus the Belarusian fighters defecting to Ukraine and the danger of bulldozers — How we will fight climate change by Noah Smith — My thinking on climate change is moving away from complex technical fixes to practical, simple ones. I’m sad to see a dearth of them outside of authors like Vaclav Smil. Noah Smith is fast joining the list. The Belarusian Fighters…

Politics

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Why You Should Move to New Hampshire, The Practical Green Deal and Wizardry with Cash Flow

Sep 5

A Case of Restaurant Cannibalism

A short story about a naughty restaurant chewing up local spots in Los Angeles — The following story is fictional. Any resemblance to real restaurants and places is coincidental and does not reflect my views on the restaurant in question. It’s my first foray into writing about my new home, Los Angeles. The Great White sounds like a shark. And it is, in the sense…

Fiction

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Published in Jimmy on Learning

·Sep 3

Who Makes Manhole Covers, The Economics of Podcasts, and the Eternal E-40

Plus, the code the FBI used in a massive wiretapping operation and how Google automates operating system updates — Spotify’s Billion-Dollar Bet on Podcasting Has Yet to Pay Off by Lucas Shaw — As an avid listener of podcasts and a producer of one, I was fascinated to read about the economics of them. Spotify bet on them as a high margin complement to their low margin music business…

Economics

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Published in Jimmy on Learning

·Aug 26

The Man Who Solved the Market (and One Who Didn’t), Theories about Conspiracy Theories and the Bullshit Industrial Complex

Plus why primitive communism is as seductive as it is wrong, inflation, web4 myths, and why we should break up Amazzon The internet is full of men who hate feminism. Here’s what they’re like in person by Emmet Rensin — Much like Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a…

Conspiracy Theories

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Published in Jimmy and Neil Have Problems

·Aug 23

Using Zapier to Make SMS Idea Input Seamless

How we utilize Zapier and SMS to capture ideas on the go — Here at Jimmy & Neil Have Problems, we are always having ideas on the go. Previously, we’ve used a nasty mix of Google Keep, Apple Notes, email, and more to file ideas into Trello. Fed up with having notes strewn all over the places, Neil Weeda and I went back…

Zapier

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