Jason Frantz

silicon grinder in the data mines @sigmacomputing

[Jason Frantz @jfranty]

@fitsoccerqueen @YouTube Thanks for all your wonderful content, Erica! Do you have a recommended way to listen to your podcasts outside of YouTube, e.g. on Apple Podcasts?

[Jason Frantz @jfranty]

@LukeW Red mode is the new dark mode

[Jason Frantz @jfranty]

@LukeW @itsloukman Works for me now.

I wish the font had tabular numbers. Would make the tables and chart axis labels look cleaner!

[Jason Frantz @jfranty]

@LukeW Can’t login to try it out, but I’m liking how the sticky scrolling is working between the 2 panels

[Jason Frantz @jfranty]

@LukeW @itsloukman I just tried Chrome on Mac and hit the same thing

[Jason Frantz @jfranty]

@changhiskhan A good chance you guys have already seen it, but the JSON Tiles format is the best paper I’ve come across for JSON serialization: https://t.co/fxhOUtxecF

[Jason Frantz @jfranty]

@LukeW Never seen a 504 on your website before…

[gt.dad @gtdad]

Seeing Like a School

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A useful perspective to have on schools, over and above their various benefits and deficiencies, is that they are altogether rather strange.

[Jason Frantz @jfranty]

@sampullara @BonesMoses We’ve renamed XML to JSX and added self closing - it’s cool now

[Jason Frantz @jfranty]

@sampullara Components are just functions, not sure why we need different patterns for what’s good

[Jason Frantz @jfranty]

@gregmushen Oh wow, I totally missed that TEE was the same. How strange!!

[Jason Frantz @jfranty]

@gregmushen Loving these threads of yours but a bit puzzled - if energy expenditure goes up and calorie intake goes up to match, wouldn’t that offset clearance rate going up? Seems like flux of overall LDL would matter more than duration of a particular LDL particle.

[Hiten Shah @hnshah]

The fastest way to kill energy in a company is to let process replace thinking.

Process should exist to sharpen judgment not to dull it or to shield people from reality. When teams start worshiping the checklist, when people follow the script just to “get through the meeting,” you know the game is over.

You can see it in the eyes of the team: a quiet resignation, a learned helplessness. You hear, “That’s just how we do things here,” and you know nobody’s expecting anything to change.

Thoughtless process is a way to outsource discomfort. You can hide behind it. You can point to it when someone asks why a customer is angry or why a project is stuck. Bureaucracy thrives on this. On the false comfort of repeatable steps, on the myth that consistency is the same thing as progress.

But the truth is, every great company is built on tension. Between speed and quality, between what worked yesterday and what’s required tomorrow. Process that survives this tension is earned. Everything else is just set dressing.

If your team is spending more time filling out forms than fixing what’s broken, you’re not scaling excellence, you’re scaling mediocrity.

The highest-leverage moves always happen outside the manual, at the edges where someone is willing to ask, “Why do we even do it this way?” The people who ask this are worth everything.

You don’t fix a broken culture with more process. You fix it by making sure the process never becomes an excuse to stop thinking. The second it does, it’s time to burn it down and start again.

[Jason Frantz @jfranty]

@GuruAnaerobic That’s what the paper (not the poster) says too!

“The results showed that, when matched for total energy expenditure, 12-3-30 had a significantly longer completion time, lower energy expenditure rate, higher %FAT, and lower %CHO than self-paced running.”

[Jason Frantz @jfranty]

@CJHandmer There’s no amount of money you can raise that will force you to think deeply about essential problems, but fundraising certainly lets you create nonessential problems to spend that time on

[Jason Frantz @jfranty]

@CJHandmer @TerraformIndies My grandfather did research in physiology for his whole career and was adamant that his high school drafting class was the best class he ever took. I think machine shop class was the best class I took at Caltech.

[scientism @mr_scientism]

Electrification is a more important technological ‘race’ than AI, since all modern technology is basically just combinations of batteries, motors, sensors, actuators, etc. But it’s also not really a race since China has such a huge lead.

[Jason Frantz @jfranty]

@bernhardsson I’ve pitched to various people that the time should shift a few minutes (or perhaps more depending on latitude!) every Saturday night and so far nobody has agreed that it’s an obviously great solution