Today’s Best Band Ever™ is Igorrr. According to Wikipedia, the band:
combines a variety of disparate genres, including black metal, baroque music, breakcore, and trip hop.
In other words, they use whatever is necessary to tell the story. Bravo.
Difficulty: Hurt me plenty.
The world.
We had the hottest day in the recorded history. Nobody seemed to care because twitter DDOSed itself and facebook is rolling out their own, which appears to be a privacy nightmare, just like expected from facebook.
Ukraine is making a steady (and careful) progress and from what I understand, the moscovia is running out of the only thing they meaningfully rely on – artillery. One year ago they invaded Ukraine while having something around 5500 cannons, now they’re down to about 1000. Still significant but with this rate of attrition (and length of the front line), they will completely run out in several months. Oh, and Ukraine now has more tanks.
Here is a very view on calendars. I’ve been wondering a lot about better time management (the nature of TODO, what are emails in relation to the calendar, etc) and this article hits some sweet points. Because, indeed, context is king. Context is what turns information into insight.
To err is human
I have a special relationship with mistakes.
I make a lot of them. Mistakes are an integral part of my life.
For a long time, I thought the “To err is human” means that it’s natural to make mistakes and one should accept that.
While that still stands, now I’m starting to think that there’s an additional dimension to that.
Mistakes are not just natural, they are inevitable and sometimes even required.
I’m not talking about mistakes made deliberately, out of arrogance or in an attempt to play the system.
In general, there are two categories of mistakes.
Under informed
One is when one does something they know how to do and still makes a mistake. Every day is different, sometimes we are more distracted, sometimes conditions are slightly different. Water boils at lower temperature at higher altitudes, so people might get surprised that their tea is hotter than usual. And of course, everything breaks all the time.
These are the mistakes made because of the implicit lack of information.
And to be fair, we’ll need a computer bigger than the universe to simulate our universe, which means we’ll never be able to consider absolutely every condition.
In other words, we cannot predict what will happen and when, but we can prepare for this eventuality.
Terra incognita
The other kind of mistake is similar, but involves an explicit unknown. One does something new or different, and it is absolutely inevitable that many assumptions will not stand. This is the grind of the scientific method. Hypothesis, experiment, result.
This is not exclusive to the formal science. Everything we take as obvious today, was once unknown. Washing hands, not touching hot surfaces, facebook, google and online privacy, trying to reason with terrorists in general or moscovia in praticular.
This is how we learn what to do but also what not to do.
This is the reason ADRs are a powerful idea. I really should start doing them…
I err, therefore I progress
Except for mistakes when the outcome and the odds are known in advance, mistakes are
not only natural
but also inevitable (no plan survives contact with reality)
and, even more importantly, educative and thus allow us to move forward.
Happy little accidents
Bob Ross was really onto something.
Take care and stop aggressors.
PS. This post is still stubbornly 100% GPT-free.