Adi Da wrote an essay called “Art and Chaos“. Here is a sentence that I really like:
The conceptual aspect of all art is the mental animation of the intrinsic self-apprehension of order.
Art is making sense out of chaos.
Q: Web developmentâwith the wide range of backend and frontend languages, frameworks, and all of the tools and dependencies developers deal with on a day-to-day basis building apps and sitesâis inherently complex. What advice do you give folks who are just starting out in web development?
 1) When someone is getting started in web development, I usually focus on three things. First, you have to learn your foundations. Get good at HTML, responsive CSS3, and vanilla JavaScript. This will be of use to you no matter where youâre working.
2) Second, pick something and get good at it. Pick a single frontend framework and a single backend framework and get to know them well. Try a variety of projects in them; find the places they annoy you; get to know the communities; dig in deep; give back.
–by Matt Stauffer
https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/
Sad update on the problems of trying to scan all the books in the world, and make them available.
Quotes from a talk by Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson: A Lesson From Amazonâs Bezos:
I remember one of these all-hands meetings, somebody asked a question, and I donât even remember what the question was,â said Lawson. âBut I remember what Jeffâs response was. Jeff said, âWe are a software company, just as much as that other company down in Redmond,ââ a reference to Microsoft (MSFT).
What a great definition of what it is to be a software person: people who solve business problems with magnetic particles; not just developers, but people throughout a company who are able to see business problems who are trying to solve them through this lens. Software people fundamentally believe any problem can be solved once you pull that problem into the realm of software.â
And, âItâs a great time to be a software developer,â said Lawson. Thatâs because the smartphone is âdigitizingâ more and more of the world, bringing into into the domain of software.
Interview done in 2005. Memorable quote: Testing is like flossing–good for you but most people don’t do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zaCvLVU70o