I'm so tempted to do what I swore I'd never do: use nice photos of my #kids as desktop wallpaper. I'm not going to do it. No. The thing is: it would be kind of justified, because they're objectively the cutest babies, ever. Like, seriously. More adorable than other people's kids. So I could do it. But no, I'm not going to do it. Nope.
> _“There are ‘meetings of minds’ one waits for. When #SamHarris chatted to #DavidDeutsch. When #DouglasMurray speaks to #JordanPeterson. It's where people align seemingly very closely and then we find those small places where they disagree.”_
— [Brett Hall](https://www.bretthall.org/blog/daniel-yaron-and-eamonn)
❤️
@freemo Oh, I was just going to browse it real quick (I think)… but thanks. (Perhaps better to try to put it under archive.is or archive.org — for the benefits of others, too.)
Biometric auth will always be crap.
Good point.
Well, I have listed immutable traits (_white_) as well as hobbies (_biker_) and transient or contingent statuses (_vegetarian_).
I am a _contrarian_ much in the same vein that I'm _white_, an _introvert_, or a _Japanophile_: it's not something I strive for, or even do consciously; and I may well cease to be a contrarian like I may no longer be a Japanophile in the future. It's just the way I think I am — today.
But I get your point about [keeping our identities small](http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html) 👍
@koalie xD 🤪
[Antonio Escohotado](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Escohotado), one of my dearest intellectual heroes, died today 😢
He was a true erudite, a polymath, and a free soul.
He devoured the classics, opposed dictator Franco, was the fiercest of Communists, pioneered the hippy revolution in #Ibiza, travelled the world, studied and experimented with most drugs known to mankind, changed his views, lectured #philosophy, taught himself a few languages, became the most articulate #liberal, wrote the definitive tomes on a variety of scientific subjects, changed his views again, and shared it all along the way.
What I admire the most, though, is that he read everything under the sun. Primary sources, secondary sources, biographies, commentary. And he seemed to remember it all. #Escohotado set out to deeply understand something — be it #theGreeks, #drugs, #economics, #ChaosTheory — and damned studied every single relevant page there is about the subject, tirelessly, for years, until he emerged with the most robust of opinions about the topic, and a comprehensive view in the form of a new #book.
I am very inspired by him to always freaking read the classics, and the sources.
And I have always lamented that his fame in the English-speaking world wasn't commensurate with his many merits.
His last months were the chronicle of a death foretold: he chose to leave, and did so in his own terms, with dignity, in his beloved Ibiza.
I went to see him at public events here in #Madrid a couple of times. He was a giant, some unfortunate views or quotations notwithstanding.
I miss him already.
I am:
* #Andalusian
* #atheist
* #biker
* #blogger
* #cerebral
* #classicliberal
* #contrarian
* #curious
* #eclectic
* #effectivealtruist
* #engineer
* #essayist
* #European
* #father
* #geek
* #globalist
* #humanist
* #indecisive
* #individualist
* #introvert
* #Japanophile
* #Madrilenian
* #male
* #married
* #marathoner
* #musician
* #nerd
* #nudist
* #obsessive
* #painter
* #pianist
* #polyglot
* #oboist
* #procapitalism
* #procrypto
* #proFLOSS
* #programmer
* #rationalist
* #reader
* #runner
* #sceptic
* #scientist
* #shortsighted
* #shy
* #Spaniard
* #straight
* #strict
* #taken
* #traveller
* #urbanite
* #vegetarian
* #white
* #writer
* #41
For a long time I thought #programmers were unusually egocentric and annoying in our obsession with our own trade and tools: we dedicate inordinate attention to designing, rewriting and tweaking libraries, frameworks, plugins, etc _for our own, and our peers', usage_.
But most recently, I've realised that #journalists also love to discuss and criticise the #media; #musicians often write and sing about #songs and other #artists; so many #economists seem focused on #Economics and its tools (as opposed to their object of study); etc.
Perhaps we #technologists are not so unique after all…
@francistein @Lucasdepicher @Mastoporra
Era un verdadero sabio. Es una pena 😢
This is more or less how I spend the #money I earn
Happy #InternationalMensDay! This year focused on “better relations between #men & #women”.
#CognitiveBias interactive taxonomy — very handy:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cognitive_bias_codex_en.svg