Jason Byrne

Entrepreneur, developer, historian, journalist, Christian, family man, and track & field fan. VP of Software Development @ FloSports. Founder of MileSplit.

Medium member since February 2019

Editor of Florida History and FloSports Engineering

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From Why small teams win by Adrian Zumbrunnen

Thinking back, I realized that there was a direct connection between my creation and the emotions that people had experienced. When users were happy, I was happy. When they were frustrated, I was frustrated too. Once ownership and our individual contributions become diluted, this connection starts to fade. Thi…

From Some advice from Jeff Bezos by Jason Fried

He’s observed that the smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to …

From The Complete Guide to Building a Framework for Customer Empathy by Thibault Imbert

But actually, we as designers, engineers, product or marketing managers, or anyone in tech, are generally a terrible representation of most human beings exposed to software. We have much more experience with technology than most of our customers, so it’s easy to fall into the trap of building experiences based on that distorted reality.

From Hard and Soft Skills in Tech by Yonatan Zunger

or …ful. At more senior levels, this becomes more and more of your responsibility to manage and create. This is closely tied to the deeper difference between junior and senior roles: a junior person’s job is to find answers to questions; a senior person’s job is to find the right questions to ask. The number of purely technical questions requiring any given level of expertise decreases relativel…

From This Southern program continued slavery long after the Civil War by Stephanie Buck

For Southern whites now without their former workforce, there was a clear upside to convicting as many blacks as possible. Laws, especially around vagrancy, were quickly enacted to target African Americans. In North Caroli…

From This Southern program continued slavery long after the Civil War by Stephanie Buck

Most of us think the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery, but that’s not exactly true.

From Nominating Hillary was the second biggest mistake in the history of the Democratic party by Will Pflaum

Tulsi Gabbard or Nina Turner for DNC chair NOW. Don’t wait for sunset.

From Complexity and Impostor Syndrome by Mayank Thanawala

My superpower is that I’m too stupid to understand systems that are too complex. It sounds more like a liability than an asset when I put it that way, but think about it: what good…

From The Marvelous Wooden Railroad by Jason Byrne

… a supply of 4x6 and 2x6 wood planks. They found the locomotive sitting on the bed of a box car, so their first task was to unload the train from the train.