Developing your ideas is not an easy feat. You don’t always know what the idea is. You get a general topic to look into, and start exploring. More ideas come out of it, more precise thoughts that come with the first research. It becomes a big pool of ideas, which doesn’t always make sense together. That’s a quick example of what could happen when you are trying to write a blog post, just like this one. Read more

They might actually be the scientists among us who have done proper social change in a way that is not morally right, but is also the most efficient. And my obsession right now is to try to find a way to use an insane phrase, “Weaponize kindness” and to be able to see ourselves as not teams. Penn Jillette, on the Tim Ferris Podcast (2:05:30) What Penn means with this is that the true way to change the society is through kindness, even though it may not be moral to do so. Read more

When creating a new system, I usually create a new blog post associated with it. My blogging being done using hugo, and the source of the code being on git, I usually create git commits for each new post. Not only that, but I may also make configuration changes, or updates on a post. I classify in the following categories : Post: Creating a new post Update: Updating a post Config: Changing some configuration for the blog Theme: Changing parts of the theme So every time I create a new commit, I add those categories in front of the commit message, helping see better the last actions that were done. Read more

Reading the book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life, I read about the system that he has to go to the gym. While in a normal day, he goes to the gym and exercises regularily, at fixed hour. But some days are harder than others, and on those days, he takes the process really step by step. He first start by putting on this shoes. Read more

The last posts that I wrote, it was hard to choose the topic. So I decided to create a small system today to ease up the decision. This system is really simple, but it will really ease the decision. I have a list of topics that I want to write about, for which I want to create systems in my life. So if I don’t have a preference, knowing that I will write about all of them, why bother ? Read more