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I cant' believe it's almost 10 years since he died. My favorite quote of his is "Who needs a bucket list when you have love?”

I wish more people would take his ideas seriously, especially his "Collective Code Construction Contract".

Also sad that now all three are gone.

Pleasure is not the right goal. Homeostasis, balance, equanimity, peace are much better.

Learn to appreciate beauty. Learn to create beauty. Learn how to get better at both.

Learn Argentine Tango. If you live in a big enough city, most likely there will be a tango community. Classes 2 times a week, one practica and one milonga and puff most of your week is covered.

I think that it is more important to remember that Montessori tried to bring education in the 20th century using the science that was available to her 100+ years ago.

Most schools today are still stuck into the factory model of 200 years ago. They are still trying to take uneducated peasant children and discipline them to mindlessly follow a 9-to-5 factory work schedule. Applying Montessori principles would be an improvement to most.

Regular people severely underestimate how outdated and unscientific the current model is. Everywhere.

And we know about this for more than 50 years and we've done very little to improve things.

One of my sisters made sure that my nephew was in a Montessori kindergarten. He went to a regular school afterwards but those Montessori years can still be felt. There is a kind of emotional stability that still permeates his behavior. A level of presence and calm that brings me joy and gratefulness.

> "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." - CmdrTaco

Apple is very good at maximizing "consumer satisfaction". This means giving consumer the best deal for their money considering as many of the consumer needs as feasible. Other brands ignore a lot of these needs and then they wonder why people don't buy their products when, on some details, they are much better than Apple at a lower price.

Good enough for vertical markets and admin/back-office apps.

Go to Buenos Aires.

Programming is draining on the brain and you need a way to disconnect from your project in order to rest your mind. Tango will provide you with the much needed balance.

This way, you can code during the day, socialize/move your body during the evening at tango classes or practicas and maybe have a great time at a milonga (tango party) once a week.

When you get back to US, you will also come back with a great body skill.

Even good software runs in a context. The last commit I did was just to add a comment about a specific ordering in an argument to a function call that had to be that way to compensate for a bug in the library from where the function was imported.