Favorites from July 2019

A collection of some of my favorite links, images, tweets and quotes from July. While these aren’t a comprehensive look at or summary of July 2019, they do capture the things that I found interesting, thought provoking, and/or cool over the past month.

hedgerow devil on Twitter: “In 1997 Crayola made the leap into a cyberpunk future with the release of these internet themed crayons. Web Surfin’ Blue is my colour.… https://t.co/P9ab9q8eSG”

Favorite Links

• Eva Design System: Deep learning color generator
• Growing Old - Chad Fowler’s Ruby Conference 2017 Keynote
• Negative Space: The Vast Emotional Landscape of a Father-Son Relationship Packed into an Animated Short via Colossal
• Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System - The Donella Meadows Project
• The Great Wave by Katsushika Hokusai
• Get your work recognized: write a brag document - Julia Evans

Favorite Quotes

• Vala Afshar on Twitter: “.@Netflix did not kill blockbuster. Ridiculous late fees did. @Uber did not kill taxi business. Limited access and fare control did. @Amazon did not kill other retailers. Poor customer service did. Not being customer-centric is the biggest threat to any business. —@betobrea… https://t.co/CvUwdIXcvh”

• Ryan Holiday on Twitter: ““By leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it.” Dwight D. Eisenhower”

• Ryan Holiday on Twitter: ““If a man knows not which port he sails, no wind is favorable.” – Seneca”

• Dan Abramov on Twitter: “Tired: how many lines of code is this function Wired: how many different concepts did you need to unwrap in your head to understand what this function is doing”

• “When we rush development, skip tests and refactoring, we get “Escalating Risk.” Please give up the “technical debt” description; it gives business people a very wrong impression of the tradeoffs.”

• Heidi Stevens on Twitter: “I spent today with a man whose mom saved the July 21, 1969 Chicago Daily News for the moon landing coverage. (Column coming tomorrow.) It also contained this op-ed. 50 years ago. Unbelievable.… https://t.co/XcOuybhNEr”

• Karen Civil on Twitter: “The dream is free, the hustle is sold separately.”

Favorite Thoughts

• Readme Driven Development

— July 31, 2019