Thoughts

“Everything should support you”

This is a tricky realization - which is very obvious in retrospect.

I’m going to use an analogy I know very well. Building your body.

If your goal is to “build your body” so your muscles are bigger and more developed

Goal “Building a muscular body”

And you want that quickly (which is very possible if you know exactly what to do and not do).

Almost a match

2025-10-10

We all have had the experience.

Even in dating, “where you meet someone, you get along with fine, you have a few times together but then you fall off without even noticing. It happens gradually…you stop seeing each other that frequently, then you stop seeing each other, less messages until the point there are no messages at all”.

And when someone asks about that someone you say things like “she was fine, and we were good, but there was not that chemistry between us to keep us going I guess.” Or something like that.

How to deaugment yourself

2020-12-19

Not to be a pessimist not to discard anyone’s work, that’s not the goal but reflection in what’s going on.

I was trying to go over how to deaugment myself in pros of analysing something they did at SRI back in the day when the Augmentation Research group was operating in there and the veredict was more or less to just go with any day and do your usual stuff. You’re already de-augmented.

Lessons Learned - again

2020-12-13

I have mixed feelings everytime I ready a title about “XYZ Lessons learned” or “Lessons Learned on XYZ”.

Mostly because whatever it refers to (1) it usually means it has failed (to which, rude or not, I don’t care and therefore I don’t want to read - there are too many reasons why something might fail so not particularly interesting), (2) there might be some pieces of content which are useful (and might spark ideas) but (3) will be intertwingled with the main character’s story in a downword spiral where the narrator tells how things went wrong etc, etc. and (4) finally, there might be some reasoning or useful pieces on the farewell, results or whatever you want to call the last three paragraphs.

The state of venipuncture

2020-08-27

Today I came to find this and this article about the improvement of venipuncture. The biggest takeaway of these articles is venipuncture is unproperly done so we did X to solve the problem of patient discomfort.

But I argue the approach is wrong and here “Mother nature” still has an edge on us.

A mosquitto is able to puncture our skin suck out blood and leave without us even noticing. The post effects are not good as you get a red spot and some swallowing and sometimes itchyness.

How do you design an icon?

2020-06-10

A good way to create an iconic design is to start by a previous iconic design. Accentuation of the traits that make the first successful in the first place is a good idea. Here is an example:

Also, if you start working from an iconic object in itself from the get-go the odds of striking a icon are greater on your favor.

Another idea is to simplify. To remove all the superfluous and get the basic shapes for utility right. One of the best designs around that is the following.

The 1%

2019-09-21

Problem of elevating collective intelligence is that the more shared knowledge we have - unless specialised and always on the edge of knowledge - we get a similar distribution of the Pareto principle where 20% of the information is seen, read and accepted the 80% of the time. This makes it very difficult for independent thinking.

In this case, I dare to say we are probably closer to 1/99 where 1% of the information gets read 99% of the time and becomes the de facto body of knowledge. By standardising information and using only what is known to work we’re closing ourselves to (yes!) big failures but obviously to better ways too.