I used to have a blog in blogger, and I liked the idea of sharing my thoughts, but I also disliked that the hosting belonged to a company that was bad and getting worse and worse.
This is my first post trying to host a blog myself, using writefreely in my own server, and hopefully enjoying the free software and the fediverse.
Now I'd like to try some mathjax:
$$
i \hbar \frac{\partial \psi}{\partial t} = \hat{H} \psi
$$
I'm generally very skeptic about anything that seems remotely self-help. A few exceptions to this in the past have been the books Getting Things Done and Feeling Good. This one may join the club, but I'm not sure yet.
Some of the ideas that I found there and I like: There is no single perfect life for you, there are many things that you could be, and they are all fine. Bias to action: try stuff. Prototype.
I'm not going to write much about it now, because this is mostly me trying to get back into blogging a bit when I think it makes sense (to me). But I wanted to mention those, and also another idea that I liked which is the “radical collaboration” one, that made me look at all this with my friend Jose and it is being the best thing so far. 😊
Today the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration announced the second image ever of a black hole. The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy!
It is an amazing feat and it makes me very happy :) Here it is:
While doing an exercise from Designing Your Life (workview reflection from chapter 2), I wrote some notes on what I think about working in modern society.
This is a very lightly edited translation of a piece I wrote in 2017 for conec magazine.
Fasten your belts, curves ahead: the world is going to change spectacularly, and we humans as we understand ourselves today are going to become obsolete.
I used to think everything was invented and discovered. Or everything worth it, at least. And that's an unexciting place to be, but apparently a common one.
A friend died two days ago. He was an amazing person and will be dearly missed. My personal sentiments are not what I wanted to talk about here, though.
We as a society know only so much about certain diseases and how to treat them effectively. Like this very aggressive cancer that took his life away. We will do good to learn more and be more able to medically treat cases like this in the future, but there are other things that we can already do better. And it's how we treat the patients as human beings.
Today I tried to write about the risk of passing the coronavirus when going to visit someone. It looked nice enough and I'm copying an edited version here, using KaTeX instead of the original LaTeX version I wrote. Also, I was experimenting with unicode symbol support, for which I used XeTeX.
I didn't make up the numbers that appear, but I haven't included the references either. It is just a simple note with no big pretension.
Go with a friend to a bookshop. Each one has about 30 minutes to go take books that they like, and then tell the other what they are about, why they like them, anecdotes, stories about the author, the subject, etc.
Since I thought about it while being in Paris, I call it a tour bouquin. Looking forward to trying it!
Scratch is a great programming language to start learning how to program for children. It fills roughly the same spot as Logo did a generation or two ago.
