Imagine you’re in an elevator with a person you don’t know. You’re both going to the eleventh floor. At this point, you have a few choices. Pull out your phone and look at itKeep your eyes straight, careful not to look their way, orSay, “Hi.” and maybe chat with another human Most people do number... Continue Reading →
Last September I got the urge to go back to freestyle wrestling. The no-pot and no-booze has helped with my health a fitness, I wondered if I could do it. So I reached out to an older wrestling mentor of mine via Facebook. He went 197-0 in high school. I asked if the local wrestling... Continue Reading →
New rule: no more non-fiction for the rest of the year. That is my goal for the remainder of 2021. I’ll stick to sci-fi. Here is a list of books I’m currently reading: Death’s End by Cixin LiuChildren of Time by Adrian TchaikovskyNeverness by David ZindellSnow Crash by Neal Stephenson Death’s End by Cixin Liu... Continue Reading →
Take back control of your learning from the academic anarchy that is the current educational-climate crisis, click here to take control https://devobooks.gumroad.com/l/hNsKw I used to make fun of people who sold ebooks on Gumroad. Now I have my own book on the platform. Go figure, life is funny. What is Gumroad? Gumroad has nothing to... Continue Reading →
There are three ways you can look back at history: Chaotic - "history has no path. Events follow one another randomly, and any effort to impute meaning to their whrigling succession is hopeless."Linearism - history as progress, "the belief in indefinite scientific, economic, and political improvement", linear time is a unique (and usually progressing) story... Continue Reading →
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