Man improvement

I don't wish to live on mars but I do wish:

wings: if we could engineer wings into our genes it would be truly something.

death: no, no real desire for immortality, not yet. but if I could change death, I would make it into a 7 days cataplexi, it would provide time for family and close friends to gather, you'd then wake up for an hour and say your goodbyes to your loved ones before falling into the last sleep.

Invention d'un crime nouveau

Toute personne qui se plaint ou diffuse l'envie de se plaindre dans la societe pour un fait qui ne le concerne pas directement se rends coupable de n'avoir rien a foutre. La peine principale du dit crime consiste a s'en retourner chez soi jouir de la vie expressement de toute facon possible et sans rechigner sans quoi la peine secondaire prends effet, et voit l'obligation d'offrir son temps de complainte, maintenant devenu libre, aux besoins de la societe.

How MSWord bugs taught me separation of concerns. A webdev retrofuturism.

I remember the first time I typed a paper (school assignment) using a word processor. Word 95 on Windows 95a in this case. The feeling you get when it crashes on you after a dozen of carefully laid-out, themed pages. You start to be hypersensitive to fragile features like tables, or WordArt. Anything that triggers a crash, you delay it. Soon you start to reorder the process. Instead of going all-in, depth first, you think of layers of risks. The first layer, the simplest and obviously mandatory one (and yet the most * consuming) is feeding all the characters into the computer, and save it. When done you start to apply structure, then styles. Years later I learned about the html/css separation and was greatly amused.

I could also say that was my first handbased version control system, since every 5 minutes or so I'd save a file with a new name according to what steps were done. I could always fork a previous version and try a new way to achieve, or at least attempt, something. Tables are so capricious you know.

Getting things done, neighborhood scale

People must learn to build. Learn to understand a situation, and imagine a change, otherwise they will live in habits and reactionary behaviors.

"racist" complaints often include mundane statements like 'there are no more bakeries', 'I can't eat Italian anymore'. Pardon me but this is so shallow.

Questions:

• Have they all left ? Or only those you used to know ?
• Why have they left ? No more customers ? You are one. All plaintives are.
• Can't they sustain their business then ? It seems so.
• Do you want it ? It seems so.

What are you waiting for ? Organize, find a place, find a baker|cook|foo, and be happy.

You might think that is not your job. I think that is exactly what a community should be, people organizing themselves to suit their needs.

brain antipatterns ii : multiplexing

Very early I found that multiplexing between tasks has advantages. Exams rarely are sequential, questions can be linearly related thus reading these globally will improve your knowledge of the problem, or non-sequential therefore you can and should average time allocation for them. Nowadays I don't do well with multitasking, right now I'm listening to a talk about emotions effects on cells, while browsing 12 tabs. I think this is related to a difficulty of focusing and deep concentration leading you to switch to other tasks as soon as you feel stuck. Just like an exam. There's a limit above which multiplexing fails, it's well known in computers, too much multitasking means no work done, all energy is spent in context switching.
Now I just recalled something I did in high school, whenever I was new in class and had nobody to waste attention with , yet bored with most of the details of the course, I filled the 'interest' lacking by rewriting the course in my own term with some sort of organized presentation. Indentation, color schemes, columns, commentaries. It was the same content but twisted so the main information I cared about was the center, and expressed by words and structure. This kept me deeply interested in the subject by trying to find a clear and concise way to put out my mind model, while testing it at the same time for some holes.

brain antipatterns

Since I keep hitting walls whenever I try to learn something, there might be a pattern in my brain response to new stimulus.

2 cases :
- I manage to follow the first lesson, my confidence builds up to the point of shutting down my brain. The second lesson I can't barely understand anything. The end.

- I don't see the point of the subject, my confidence builds down to the point of shutting down my brain. There's no lesson two.

Gotta re-educate this cramped muscle of mine called cortex.

society economy organization energy costs

energy is related to our understanding of cosmos (as in order of everything)
we labelled it with the notion of cost which is derived from that understanding
nowadays nanotech opens the road for constant absorption of energy (heat , electricity)
we can pick and transfer small amounts at every moments
we also built more efficient devices that would require amounts in this range

human work ~ energy, also depends on our understandings of things.
crowdsource is kinda this nanotech idea
we can leverage human activities as energy
we just have to provide a sufficiently conductive medium/infrastructure for their little amount of work to be gathered, transfered, aggregated, cross-corelated.
now things would appear almost free, and people would enjoy life while contributing at the same time
we have a lot of wasted time, and lots of desire to build and make changes but the 'job' barrier is too high and unjustifiedly so.