Alex Jones

Fire starter. Data-influenced, UX-infused product leader. Autodidact. Former ringleader and current core member of Refresh Austin. Barbecue acolyte.

https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/the-art-of-design-system-recipes/

"This goes on all your creative life: always showing new work, always being compared to others." What's the answer? "It's simple. Stay on the bus. Stay on the fucking bus." Oliver Burkeman in Hel...

https://silverspider.com/2024/highlight-from-helsinki-bus-station-theory-by-oliver-burkeman/

Fire starter. Data-influenced, UX-infused product leader. Autodidact. Former ringleader and current core member of Refresh Austin. Barbecue acolyte.

https://apps.louplummer.lol/post/shortery-the-missing-mac-automator

The English word comes from the Latin word revolvere, meaning “to roll back.” That spawned not only “revolve” but also “revolt,” which grows out of the idea of “rolling back” one�...

https://silverspider.com/2024/highlight-from-age-of-revolutions-by-fareed-zakaria/

For twenty years, PostSecret has broadcast suburban America’s hidden truths—and revealed the limits of limitless disclosure.

https://hazlitt.net/longreads/dark-matter

This would have saved me considerable frustration over the years...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5B3mGtWVfkc

👏

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/blog/daniel-radcliffe-responds-to-j-k-rowlings-tweets-on-gender-identity/

(The phrase “Everything is bigger in Texas,” which would become the state’s most popular motto, probably was first uttered in New Orleans in April 1885.)Skip Hollandsworth in The Midnight A...

https://silverspider.com/2024/highlight-from-the-midnight-assassin-by-skip-hollandsworth/

When Sam Houston regained the presidency of the republic in 1841, he tried to relocate the capital back to Houston. A group of his supporters came to Austin in the dead of night to take back the ...

https://silverspider.com/2024/highlight-from-the-midnight-assassin-by-skip-hollandsworth-2/

Fire starter. Data-influenced, UX-infused product leader. Autodidact. Former ringleader and current core member of Refresh Austin. Barbecue acolyte.

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/12/how-to-build-a-small-solar-power-system/

two important things for product leaders to keep in mind, especially if they wish to embark on a transformation to the product model: first, you have as much ownership as you have credibility; an...

https://silverspider.com/2024/highlight-from-product-leadership-theater-by-marty-cagan/

One of the best-known icons of modern society is a classic example of a symbol—it’s easy to spot, but hard to explain. Who came up with it?

https://tedium.co/2024/03/09/red-circle-slash-no-symbol-history/

Some materials, like quartz crystals, sugar, some ceramics, bone, and even wood, display the piezoelectric effect: pieze being Greek for push. When these materials are squashed or deformed in som...

https://silverspider.com/2024/highlight-from-nuts-and-bolts-by-roma-agrawal/

Fire starter. Data-influenced, UX-infused product leader. Autodidact. Former ringleader and current core member of Refresh Austin. Barbecue acolyte.

https://ishadeed.com/article/css-container-query-guide

In comparison to the spring-driven escapements that typically beat six times a second, atoms in atomic clocks oscillate over nine billion times a second, providing an incredibly precise and stand...

https://silverspider.com/2024/highlight-from-nuts-and-bolts-by-roma-agrawal-2/

Free web app to wrap mockups/screenshots in a phone, tablet, or computer

https://mockuphone.com/

The spring was humanity’s first tool that allowed us to store energy and then release it when we wanted, often amplifying our effort.Roma Agrawal in Nuts and Bolts

https://silverspider.com/2024/highlight-from-nuts-and-bolts-by-roma-agrawal-3/

Microsoft is also a very large investor in OpenAI and a recent investor in Mistral, another LLM startup. The “$650 million” license fee is essentially a way to circumvent the growing hostilit...

https://silverspider.com/2024/highlight-from-microsofts-brazen-ai-inflection-by-on-my-om/

What a great idea!

https://newatlas.com/energy/sand-battery-finland/

Interesting...

https://www.purewow.com/tech/why-do-boomers-use-ellipses