On Work
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.
I thought it may be worth sharing. Here they are!
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Catalansplaining
A friend asked me about Catalonia and I was trying to summarize the main things that are going on there right now.
Hoping that it will serve as a helpful-ish short introduction to someone, here it is:
Referendum in Catalonia
There's quite a lot to say about it, and I fear that if I try to touch all the relevant points I will never write this post.
But I want to write something, and I would like to highlight what I consider to be the most important.
Most of the people in Catalonia want to vote. They don't necessarily want to become independent, but they do want to vote about it. There's little magic in knowing that, we don't lack polls, and the numbers are all around 80%. That's not a voice to silence. And from Catalonia they have demanded it for a long time. Yet, there's absolutely nothing in the horizon that suggests that's going to happen in our current system.
It should be obvious that's unfair and antidemocratic.
Possible retake
Isn't it unsettling that whenever you make the firm statement that you are going to do something that you were more-or-less already doing, it is then when it is more likely to stop?
It's something I have seen countless times in websites when they talk about their updates. And I am no exception.
To me, it is the feeling of being read that puts me off most. Plus simple and pure procrastination.
I'm pretty sure there must be a name for this, and it must be a well-known thing that every psychology student has seen from their first year.
Anyway, this is a possible comeback, and in any case let me talk about this very cool thing I've recently discovered: https://hypothes.is/. It is an extension for the main browsers that allows to annotate webs and pdfs, and share those annotations collaboratively. It has already many of the things that I wanted as a project to make web annotations. And it is free software.
Hypotes.is has many cool features, but for my interests it lacks the possibility of seeing the annotations in a more hierarchical/scored/transitively-interest-oriented way, so even with an immense amount of annotations per page one could easily see the main ones for her. Well, I can collaborate with them.
WorldPride Parade
So colorful! I've walked past a ton of trucks filled with people and music celebrating the pride of being gay (lgtb). Much better, a ton of people celebrating, in small or big groups, smiling and having fun. Openly acknowledging an inclusion that should already be there.
If only because of the concentration of smiles, it was worth having it.
I'm still a bit surprised about the high I get by just walking by the streets. It's great. Crossing paths with many people, seeing cool places, feeling being a part of the city... Yes, I want this.
As a plus, in this not-exactly-small city, it often happens that I get to cross paths with people I know and like. Today it was Ilan who spotted me first. He came back from Ibiza a few days ago, and him and his Uruguayan group of friends were walking by in the opposite direction as I was. I joined them for a while, walked and talked and saw the event together. I love when you randomly get to know nice and interesting people. Later on, I also met Jorge from the Go club, a really cool guy I hadn't seen for a couple of years. Always cool to catch up, even if shortly.
What about the town hall? Dressed with a changing rainbow of colors, you could feel it was not merely standing but participating of the pride. Kudos to the local govt.
Even though I support the orgullo crÃtico (critical pride), I don't see it as a contradiction at all with respect to the pride parades. On the other hand, I think the parades are the lion's share of what goes into the consciousness of everyone, especially the people that would not have been exposed to the idea of a lgtb community with equal rights. I really, really like it.
A beautiful day.