Proof you can do harder things 20 things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer Advice should go with its context. I still don’t know very much The hardest part of software is building the right thing The best software engineers think like designers The best code is no code, or code you don’t have to maintain Software is a means to an end Sometimes you have to stop sharpening the saw, and just start cutting shit...

When a precocious yet nonconformist teenager asks why they need to learn calculus, what should you say? You know they will never use it in adulthood, outside of certain career choices. You could say, “It’ll help you get into college,” but then they’re left wondering why college cares if you know calculus. And once they’re in college, maybe you could say, “To get a good job,” but why would a potential hirer care how you did in multivariate calculus if your job doesn’t require any knowledge of calculus?...

what is most diffcult is to love the world as it is, with all the evil and suffering in it. - Hannah Arendt They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allen Poe

From BLM, I heard of James Baldwin. From the pandemic, I learnt Hannah Arenht. Both are writers. Baldwin left America for France because of racism in America. Arenht left Germany for America because of Nazism. Here, another name, Sophie Scholl, popped up. “The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.” - James Baldwin...

There is going to have the first Dark ID (DID) design. The idea of DID dwelled in my mind for about two years. Now I can finally see its form. I am not sure how others receive it but it’s mine, unique to what I am. This reminds me of one thing that Jorge Borges said in Spanish. “Sólo perduran en el tiempo las cosas
Que no fueron del tiempo.” After translation, it is roughly as follows: Only things that were not of time endure in time....