| Bio | Scruffy-looking nerd herder, and world’s foremost expert in self-proclaimed thought leadership. |
| web | https://jrj.org |
| @jrj |
Retired at the end of October, just now getting around to taking the old blog out of mothballs.
https://blog.jrj.org/2025/12/08/Retired-from-Disney-and-30-plus-years/
“if you watch the video you think Jonny Ive found the next Steve Jobs, and it's like dude, it's Sam Altman....
...he got kicked out of his own company!”
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@caseyliss ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!?!
I saw them live a lifetime ago, this needed half as many cuts, but not none. I underestimated how intense this could be. I love that the editors had the wisdom to linger with that one fan (you know the one.)
I can’t wait for this to be an experience everyone can afford.
Every "full-stack dev" knows they could build Twitter in a weekend. They're right, it's a trivial service if you're building for 100 people.
Senior engineers understand the difference between building it for 100 people and 100 million is more than a million times as complex.