Just looked it up and saw he did an album cover for Steely Dan. It reminded me that Chevy Chase was an early drummer for Steely Dan (well, before they became "Steely Dan")
Really enjoying this. Thank you for the great work. I'm currently on Lesson 11 and noticed a couple typos (missing words). I haven't found anywhere on the site itself where I could send feedback to report such a thing (maybe I missed it). Hopefully you aren't offended if I post them here.
I think the easiest way to point them out is to just have you search for the partial line of text while on Lesson 11 and you'll see the spots.
"No one is going to motivated by a robotic..." (missing the word "be")
"People who are given a possible solution to a problem tend to less creative at..." (again missing the word "be")
I don't' think the article is focused on the temperature itself but rather the rate of change. During the time period referenced the speed of temperature change was fastest.
Seems a lot of comments here are basically saying "calm down, it's just an ad."
If these are "just" ads (meaning they aren't a big deal) then why are millions spent on them? Why are Super Bowls ads an event all their own?
Maybe read up on some early figures in effective propaganda and advertising such as Edward Bernays. Watch The Century of the Self. Put your ego aside and accept that advertising might have a significant influence on a person's perception, reasoning, and judgment...and accomplish it in subtle ways you may not be fully cognizant of. That can also lead to more vast cultural conditioning. The boiling frog...
It's not "just" an ad and thankfully some people are applying critical thought and criticism against it. Why that bothers so many here might also be telling. Why are you being triggered?
> Put your ego aside and accept that advertising might have a significant influence on a person's perception, reasoning, and judgment...and accomplish it in subtle ways you may not be fully cognizant of. That can also lead to more vast cultural conditioning.
Can you please expand a bit on what you feel should be the outcome here? To me it kind of feels like that the logical progression of your argument is that “any creative work with an influential impact is problematic”. That is a scary attitude that is used all to often to oppress more than provide freedom of thought. Music, literature, art, etc… all are used by their creators to illicit a response of some sort, and most rely on that response as a trigger to invoke a product purchase. Every creative is in the business of sales.
I want art to trigger an emotional response. That’s the point.
> "any creative work with an influential impact is problematic"
No? Any creative work with an influential impact may be subject to critical analysis. You can disagree with the conclusions, but it's hard to disagree with the act of analysis.
Never said anything to the contrary. There is lots of artwork I don’t like and I am happy to express an opinion or critique when asked. I am not morally outraged about it though.
> Why that bothers so many here might also be telling. Why are you being triggered?
Maybe because we are exhausted by this woke bullshit telling us that everything is meant to offend and we should be offended by everything. Maybe because the level of outrage at an ad seems to dwarf the outrage we (don’t) see at things that actually deserve outrage. That our little snowflake society should turn its attention to bigger, real issues rather than let its ego get offended by everything that crosses its path.
I agree with your point about outrage culture these days. But your language indicates you think it’s a political issue for the left (“woke,” “snowflake”). The fact is that both ends of the political spectrum get way too outraged over things these days (they crushed art! He didn’t wear a flag pin!).
It’s not a political issue, it’s a problem with our culture right now, probably driven in part by social media algorithms and systems (upvotes) that reward outrage.
Others here have already made good suggestions for books that focus more specifically on communication...which is what you were asking about. I wanted to share a book suggestion I found helpful regarding emotional intelligence (or emotional maturity) in general. The School of Life
I prefer using Next. I've been using Remix at the day-job for about a year now. It's fine, but I still choose to use Next with all personal work. I'd also prefer to work with it professionally. My personal dev-blog started in v12, I upgraded it to v13 a while back (not much involved in that upgrade), and at this moment am refactoring it to v14. A lot has changed, and for the better.
It provides a great solution for most needs and problems. But I think the biggest selling point is that their docs are excellent. I never connected with the Remix docs...they often left me still confused. I've used Remix v1 and updated our two work repos to v2. I still don't feel fluent with it for some reason and often find myself thinking "I prefer the way Next does this".
Someone else here mentioned the T3 stack. That's a good resource to at least see other libraries/services that work well with Next. You don't need to follow any of it blindly, but use it as an information resource.
Have you ever checked out the old school amusement park Knoebels[1] that's about 20 minutes away? I highly recommend it. We lovingly refer to it as "Chernobyls" (not b/c of the park itself, but b/c it rhymes with the park's name and b/c it's near Centralia).
Knoebels IS the best! Ride the cyclone and you’ll know what it’s like to get a free chiropractic adjustment from an amateur.
I grew up going there in the 70s. That place was magic to a teenager. I met a girl there once with my brother and she ate a whole cigarette and proceeded to vomit soon after. A number of times we jumped off the cars in the middle of the haunted house. And there was a time we bought stink bombs, little glass vials, filled with a putrid, smelling chemical, and busted it open in the middle of an arcade.
There is no entrance or parking fee to this amusement park as well. You only pay for the rides. And that’s still to this day true.
The last time I went there, they were still building this interesting new ride that has no mechanics, it’s almost like a slide and it’s all hand made out of wood. I think you’re going to ride carts down it.
And if you go there, 100% get the pierogies. you will not find any better anywhere.
