Inner monologue
This week I found out that this guy resucitated StumbleUpon concept with https://stumbled.cc. Obviously I started stumbling like it was 2002. One of the most interesting articles that I stumbled on is Today I Learned That Not Everyone Has An Internal Monologue And It Has Ruined My Day. This actually blowed my mind, so I started digging into the matter, with the obligatory Wikipedia article and this other interesting article Not Everyone Conducts Inner Speech. I asked basically all my friends and family members, and I discovered fascinating facts about how different each person forms concepts, read, write and so on. I already knew about Synesthesia but the fact that it’s so common freaked me out 😆. BTW most of my thoughts have an inner dialog, but when I think about numbers, days of the week, years I see the written number / word in my mind. I’m going to continue reading about this stuff as it leads to studies about conciousness, dreams, how people learn and some many more fascinating topics about the human mind.
Development
Reading this article I decided to move from google analytics to volument, and to go on trying to reduce the amount of code and complexity in my projects: Minimalism: an undervalued development skill.
https://twitter.com/loige/status/1388888755495387137
How we use Web Components at GitHub
Stumbled
Why it’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting
Article with really cool animations to explain how an Internal Combustion Engine works.
On writing and procrastination
Disney reveals its ‘real’ lightsaber
Lo Spazio nell’arte sovietica (in italian, google translate version)
Pandemic
Post-pandemic offices will mimic neighborhoods
Millions Are Saying No to the Vaccines. What Are They Thinking?
Learnings
Thanks to Alex I discovered this not very known differences between arrow functions and functions in Javascript: Are ‘Arrow Functions’ and ‘Functions’ equivalent / interchangeable?.
For a project at my company I’ve been reading about Sails.js hooks
Media
On my quest to watch all academy awards best picture nominees, this week I watched Promising Young Woman vote 9/10, Minari vote 9/10 and The Trial of the Chicago 7 vote 8/10.
Thanks to the Yasuke anime on Netflix I learned about the fascinating story of this man from Mozambique, probably the first foreigner to become a samurai in Japan.
I visited the Escher exhibition in Barcelona and learned about Escher life, including what M.C. stands for (Maurits Cornelis).
I’ve been to another exposition L’Ortu. Aforo Limitado that included standup monologues from my friends Andrea, Mai (founders of L.O.C.A. Comedy) and Raquel. If you understand spanish take a look at their videos, really funny stuff.
