We can't productively do creative work for more than 4 hours a day. In 2014, I graduated from university and got a job at a biotech company, where I was doing data science and developing data pipelines for large biological data sequencing, specifically). There I learned a lot about the way I personally work...
The years 2021-2029 sound to me like James Bond introducing himself. “Name’s Twenty. Twenty Five.”
The best gift I got for this Christmas is the teapot for making tea that has thermal insulation, and thus I can now make a tea, forget about it for 2 hour, and still have a cup of warm tea.
Everyone tolerates people staring at their smartphones during lectures/events. Even though they are obviously not having any emergency, but scrolling some feed.
Everyone tolerates people using laptops at the events. Even though they are obviously not taking notes, but side-channelling some work.
But try taking a book out to quietly read…
You can’t say “No” to an open bottle of wine because it comes from “Yes"terday.
To Boldly Space Where no One has Before
Do you think a space (as a text symbol, as a " “) should be the same width in the text whether it is a “bold text”, an “italic text”, or a “plain text”, for consistency? Or should it be wider in the bold case and the italic case, to accommodate for the extra heaviness or tilt? 🤔
Santa, to Cash Register
Just heard from the loudspeaker, while waiting at the checkout line:
🎵 Santa, baby… An employee to checkouts! 🎵 hurry down that chimney tonight
Filter bubbles cause funny interactions. My girlfriend saw me reading a book “The Mythical Man-Month” that she never heard about before. So, we asked our friends around, what they think this book is about.
We got two types of answers:
Both ideas are funnier than the reality - that this is a book about software project leadership and time estimation (in man-months).
Everything stays on the Internet forever.
In the summer of 2012, I presented my research project about amyloid beta at my university’s conference.
Today, 12 years later, I received an email asking about this project.
Jealousy is when you don’t want me to have it. Envy is when you want to have the same.
Smartphones have stolen from us the time and the capacity to become BORED. And that’s a bad thing...
“A scientific theory is nothing but a fairytale with the human-like characters replaced by even more magical ones”
I started journaling in January 2022, and it is easily the best habit I have ever made. And the most surprising one. You should try it too! 😃...
The more I date an author, the more I realize how similar are founding a startup and writing a piece of fiction: 1. You have a wild idea of how to change the world. 2. Despite it being wild, many people had tried something similar before, unsuccessfully...
Raytracing in python - now with animation!
I read majestic Fabien Sanglard’s article about the “business card raytracer” a few years ago. These 1337 bytes of code would fit on a business card...
How to tell if your potential employer or business partner is great before signing a contract
Adult (noun) - a person capable of making rational decisions… sometimes
30 years ago, people had to memorize everything they had learnt.
15 years ago, the Internet gave us instant access to all the knowledge, so memorizing fell out of fashion.
Today, we again must memorize, as things on the Internet can no longer be deemed trustworthy.
The idea of living in a computer simulation is nice, but we are obviously just a lab experiment of 11D aliens 👽 Evidence...
No spoilers here ;-)
