Category: learning in public

How to have great ideas fast

Have you ever been into one of these 2 hours brainstorming session where lots is said, but less is done. Those meeting forgot the goal of brainstorming: to have many bad ideas and maybe a good one. There is a way to trick your brain in getting the same result of a 2 brainstorm session. Focus on the topic at hand and list as many things as possible over 2 minutes (yes that short). Read more...

What I learned from seven brief lessons on physics

seven brief lessons on physics by Carlo Rovelli ( Affiliate Amazon link ) is a passionate book that gave me the reason why physics is a beautiful, never-ending, vital for the world topic with people dedicating their life to it. In 80 pages, written in simple words, the book covers (titles are mine): Theory of Relativity - 10 pages Quantum theory - 10 pages The evolution of our place in the universe - 8 pages Quarks, gluons and others - 8 pages Relativity and Quantum cannot be both right, something is missing in our understanding - 11 pages How time is defined and luck in physics (mind blowing) - 13 pages About us humans in this world. Read more...

A Traceroute Story

Hello, my name is Packet, with a capital P, and I will show you the beginning of my trip from Frank’s phone (in the UK) to this website (hosted on S3 in the US). I start from an unknown place that I know very well, the phone. And while I do not share the address with you, trust me, it is cozy. Moving around Vodafone routers Still enjoying Vodafone hospitality Empty lands even more empty fields in the middle of somewhere while my GPS says USA, the time it took me to get there (29. Read more...