It was a packed weekend, so I couldn’t publish the weekly update on Sunday.
Another one-day-late edition.
Fascism became a catch-all phrase for leftists to criticize their adversaries.
It is a term that has a historical meaning, and I don’t want to repeat the same
mistake of...
A few days ago I wrote that I want to make peace with the mundane. With that in mind, I decided to update the theme of my blog to a classic weblog format. The new theme is heavily inspired by jwz.org and simonwillison.net.
I have too many books, especially in digital form. Whenever a book piques my interest, I immediately seek it out, acquire it by any means possible, and at least read its table of contents. This of course results in piles of books that I will never manage to read. As my knowl...
the biggest news of this week was definitely the exhibition at OtonomArt. after
~50 hours of work, it was so exciting to put Syzygy on display. it was also
thrilling to see my name as the artist on the label.
i’m glad i photographed the sculpture after every session so i could see the
gradual process. now, looking back, i find it eerie to look at the
first photos. i created this thing from mud with my bare hands!
one of the most eye-opening videos on youtube for me was anna p. foxen’s exoticizing the impossible, in which she talks about a common spiritual failure mode where the practitioner, being overfocused on the extraordinary, misses the beauty in mundane reality.
i was thinking ...
One day late reflection on the previous week.
Last weekend was so busy that I couldn’t find an hour to sit and write a few
paragraphs. Yesterday, we had a Mother’s Day dinner with my in-laws (where
did the morning go? who knows!). On Saturday, I watched my first ever America...
Contemporary art is often criticized for being extravagant, farfetched or
nonsensical. You might think of the paintings and movies of David Lynch,
sculptures of Miquel Barceló or even the banana (Comedian) of Maurizio Cattelan.
They are definitely strange and hard to interpr...
Sunday reflection on the passing week.
I charged my car battery! This might sound unimportant to you, but it was a
big deal for me. My father was a handyman and I helped him a lot on different
projects throughout my childhood. So in theory I have a good grasp of how to use
t...
i decided to quit smoking on april 19 almost two months ago. i told my wife,
my colleagues, my friends. the week before the 19th, i smoked all my cigarettes
mindfully, knowing that i wouldn’t have this sensation soon.
on april 19th, i didn’t quit.
this post is now at a cross...
I was in Antalya, Turkey for the company offsite last week. This is a reflection on the past week. photo dump.
The worst type of leader is the one who needs to be the leader. The second worst
type is the one who just can’t accept that they are the leader.
I’m a leader. Writi...
I’m writing this in haste before packing my laptop for travel. This will be a short one.
The bust is finished! I’m calling it “Syzygy”.
We finished A Knight of Seven Kingdoms. I loved it!
We started watching the new season of The Boys.
I talked about my recent inability to read in analysis. Unsurprisingly, I started reading again. I’ll probably finish the current read tomorrow on the plane.
Random thoughts on the passing week.
After 2 weeks of hiatus I was finally in the atelier again to work on my
sculpture. I think the bust is coming to an end. I feel the resistance to
continue working on it. One part of me says “I’m bored of this, I want to work
on somethin...
“We are always open.”
It used to be a recession indicator, now it’s another commodity to sell.
The bridge to my hotel.
Bumped into Spinoza.
Slava and me.
Yes! I want basic, fit ladies.
“Monster is coming!”
May this beer which is chilled to perfection in this cold Amsterdam night and these joints which I rolled but didn’t have the chance to finish because I’m already stoned as fuck bring happiness to whoever finds them.
I need to sleep.
group chat is silent. no one responds to your invitation. it’s okay. it’s been months since you walked aimlessly in the streets. didn’t you miss being a flaneur?
aren’t you entertained?
you bump into Spinoza. HELLO MR. SPINOZA! such a great philosopher. you take a selfie wit...
i’m writing this in amsterdam. i’ll be in the city for kubecon till friday.
let me know if you want to meet!
it’s been almost a month since i wrote that i’m yearning for a digital
community that runs preferably on
irc. guess what, there’s now the dealgorithmed irc
server. ...
Pluribus
We were watching Pluribus for the last 10 days and finished the first season
today. I have mixed feelings about the show. I especially found the first few
episodes hard to watch because I couldn’t stand Carol. It got easier towards
the end of the season but I can’t ...
2026 is definitely the year of blogging for me. I already published twice as many posts as I did last year. Last Friday I published a post in my technical blog in the same vein as this post: a reflection on the week. Today I posted another one there about the women who shape...
Another Sunday, another weekly reflection.
This was a really busy week. I worked more than 8 full-focus hours every
single weekday. This means I probably spent more than 10 hours in front of the
computer. It’s a lot! Thankfully this week was a 4-day week so I had time to
res...
A while ago, during a sprint retrospective, I suggested significant changes to
our “Definition of Done.” When I finished, the room went quiet. What did that
silence mean?
The silence lasted nearly a minute. Why was no one saying anything? Finally,
the PM broke the tension by...
Another Sunday, another weekly reflection post.
This is the 8th week since I created hypersubject.net. The effects of this experiment are already tangible. Compared to last year, I have already spent twice as many hours working on my blog(s) and nearly half that time writing...
I find myself once again yearning for a digital community. I believe the future of social media (for me) is some kind of invite-only group chat where the conversation flows like a river. It might live in Discord, Slack or even IRC, I don’t care1. Physical community is import...
“Normie” is a volatile term. Depending on the context, it might refer to atheists, New Agers, people who watch Netflix, people who don’t do drugs, conservatives, liberals, people who care about politics, people who don’t care about politics, people who are optimistic about t...
Just finished another session of psychoanalysis. Analysis is by far the thing I least enjoy every week. I mean, it works, at least for me, but it’s definitely not something I look forward to. Because it demands me to say the Thing.
What’s the Thing? No one knows. Is there ev...
Daily blogging is definitely not easy. I couldn’t write a post today :(
I am writing this from the drafts.app and will publish it via an action. I hope I don’t turn this site into twitter. Although, since it’s my site, I can do whatever I want. This is my home; I can behave however I want here. Twitter, on the contrary, feels like a town hall. Yeah it’s crowded, so no one really pays attention to you, but it’s still a public place. I don’t want to go crazy in the middle of a town hall. But if you are at my home (my blog), my rules apply.
I wrote five different paragraphs to start this post and couldn’t stitch any of them together. So here are all five fragments.
My ability to do good is limited by my ability to work with others.
Three years ago multiple earthquakes devastated the southeastern region of Turk...
