- If there’s something it is not about, it’s resolution and willpower.
- If there’s something it is about, it’s tweaking the environment until finding the one that works.
- The environment shapes people within much more than people realise.
- There’s no one-size-fit-all cookie-cutter solution. It’s different for everyone and it takes imagination, creativity and willingness to try and fail dozens of times.
Category Archives: Thoughts
A Road Map: What A Blog Does
I was thinking about it: what purpose should a blog serve?
Aim Just A Little Bit Higher
The crucial point is, to try and do things just a tiny bit harder than you can manage right this moment.
Feelings in AI
I’ve always thought robots can’t have feelings. But a discussion about AI this morning changed my mind.
China and Human Rights
A friend in America asked me about human rights and environment protection. It got me thinking.
They are worrying about whether sky should be the limit, but I rather think it’s because they have both their feet on the ground. Here people are still stuck worrying about whether the ground beneath their feet is going to crumble.
How to Read Code Beyond One’s Comprehension
A colleague of mine asked me yesterday: what’s the difference between good code and bad ones? I gave my answer without a blink: “Reusability.” The answer struck me. I didn’t realise that before I said it out loud.
One good way to improve reusability, is to consciously refine one’s code with an eye for patterns. Repetitions are worth summing up–it’s just pure fun.
Those Who Compile Into JavaScript
I wondered what it would be like to have my front-end workflow in Ruby, or Common Lisp. What about all the libraries that could have been easily bowered and required in JavaScript? Could existing libraries somehow fit into the picture, or should there be counterparts taking their places? What about CoffeeScript, how does it work?
After some research, the list of answers I got:
Unjust, and Wealth
I came across Paul’s take on this quite a while ago. I simply wish more people could have read this:
When I was five I thought electricity was created by electric sockets. I didn’t realize there were power plants out there generating it. Likewise, it doesn’t occur to most kids that wealth is something that has to be generated. It seems to be something that flows from parents.
Because of the circumstances in which they encounter it, children tend to misunderstand wealth. They confuse it with money. They think that there is a fixed amount of it. And they think of it as something that’s distributed by authorities (and so should be distributed equally), rather than something that has to be created (and might be created unequally).