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Author: David Eisinger <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 15:07:10 -0400
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+title: "Dispatch #17 (July 2024)"
+date: 2024-07-10T15:01:12-04:00
+draft: false
+tags:
+- dispatch
+references:
+- title: "Just Dü It and The Legend of Link • Buttondown"
+ url: https://buttondown.email/nathanlong/archive/just-du-it-and-the-legend-of-link/
+ date: 2024-07-10T19:01:35Z
+ file: buttondown-email-hoyklb.txt
+---
+
+Some thoughts here...
+
+<!--more-->
+
+This month:
+
+* Adventure:
+* Project:
+* Skill:
+
+Reading:
+
+* Fiction: [_Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore_][1], Robin Sloan
+* Non-fiction: [_Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers_][2], J. Anthony Allen
+
+[1]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/mr-penumbra-s-24-hour-bookstore-robin-sloan/15554054
+[2]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/music-theory-for-electronic-music-producers-the-producer-s-guide-to-harmony-chord-progressions-and-song-structure-in-the-midi-grid-j-anthony-allen/11905226?ean=9781727863024
+
+Links:
+
+* [Title][3]
+* [Title][4]
+* [Title][5]
+
+[3]: https://example.com/
+[4]: https://example.com/
+[5]: https://example.com/
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+
+Hey friends,
+
+How many ears does Captain Kirk have?
+
+Three. The left ear, the right ear, and the final front-ear. 🌌
+
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+
+Thinking Too Hard
+
+This week, I've been thinking about specialist vs generalist skillsets.
+
+I started my career in the web industry as a hybrid designer-developer. I built
+what I designed and covered everything from UX to Visual Design to Front-End
+Development and even some server-side logic. I was able to stay on for the
+complete lifecycle of a project. Yet because of how WIDE the responsibilities
+were, it was hard to be GREAT at all parts. There was too much to cover!
+
+When I became a manager, it became clear that hiring generalists was even
+harder. We decided to specialize and slice the design work from our team's
+responsibilities. We had more work than we could handle and we needed ALL the
+hands we could get. Specializing let us focus on being great at something and
+more easily hire for the skills we needed.
+
+Fast-forward to now and we're slowly climbing out of a tech recession. Business
+is slow. RIGHT NOW it's valuable to have a wide skillset because the shape of
+the work is changing — a flexible skill set makes it easy to fit into different
+resource-shaped roles on a project.
+
+So where does that leave us?
+
+David Eisinger, Development Director at Viget, gave us some timeless advice
+recently. He shared this quote from Neal Stevenson in The Confusion:
+
+ "Pay attention, that's all ... Notice things. Connect what you've noticed.
+ Connect it into a picture. Think of how the picture might be changed; and
+ act to change it. Some of your acts may turn our to have been foolish, but
+ others will reward you in surprising ways; and in the meantime, simply by
+ being active instead of passive, you have a kind of immunity that's hard to
+ explain."
+
+David's point was that:
+
+ • The most capable, most interesting, and smartest people: they want to know
+ EVERYTHING, and find ways to connect them... So keep your interests super
+ wide.
+ • But be active. Even if it turns out not to be the right thing, doing
+ something is better than nothing.
+
+So cast wide, be active! [5]JUST DÜ IT! Even if the shape of the work changes,
+if we're actively changing as well we'll be able to exist in those interesting
+gaps!
+
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+
+Interesting Web Bits
+
+ • A coworker of mine surfaced [6]Motion One, (which has apparently been
+ around for awhile) but aims to be "the jQuery of WAAPI" (Web Animations
+ API). I found WAAPI to be promising, but a bit brittle still, so it'd be
+ interesting to peel this apart and find how they attempted to smooth over
+ the rough parts of the API.
+ • After yeeeeeeears, [7]Zelda is finally getting her own game. (Although it
+ should be called the Legend of Link for consistency reasons! 😂)
+ • Hugo Landau talks about the [8]demise of of the mildly dynamic website.
+ • If you're looking to pick up a hobby, you could try [9]typographic knitting
+ ... or you could just admire what Rüdiger Schlömer creates...
+ • A really neat liquid physics demo [10]but with LAYERS!
+ • If you didn't see it, Figma is releasing [11]a slides builder... but it's
+ not base functionality. Gotta pay, yo.
+ • Remember Hypercards? No? (They were before my time too...) [12]But someone
+ built a hypercard simulator.
+ • [13]Fun drawing physics simulator/game/thing.
+
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+[1] https://buttondown.email/nathanlong
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+[3] https://buttondown.email/nathanlong/rss
+[4] https://buttondown.email/nathanlong/archive/
+[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmO_fnFM49k&utm_source=nathanlong&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=just-du-it-and-the-legend-of-link
+[6] https://motion.dev/?utm_source=nathanlong&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=just-du-it-and-the-legend-of-link
+[7] https://www.theverge.com/24180615/legend-of-zelda-echoes-of-wisdom-trailer-nintendo-direct?utm_source=nathanlong&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=just-du-it-and-the-legend-of-link
+[8] https://www.devever.net/~hl/mildlydynamic?utm_source=nathanlong&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=just-du-it-and-the-legend-of-link
+[9] https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/05/type-knitting-rudiger-schlomer/?utm_source=nathanlong&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=just-du-it-and-the-legend-of-link
+[10] https://grantkot.com/ll/?utm_source=nathanlong&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=just-du-it-and-the-legend-of-link
+[11] https://www.figma.com/slides/?utm_source=nathanlong&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=just-du-it-and-the-legend-of-link
+[12] https://hcsimulator.com/?utm_source=nathanlong&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=just-du-it-and-the-legend-of-link
+[13] https://midzer.de/wasm/numptyphysics?utm_source=nathanlong&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=just-du-it-and-the-legend-of-link
+[16] https://buttondown.email/
