At the beginning of this year, I decided to merge all things I wrote in different corners of the internet. After 5 weeks of that experiment, I decided otherwise. My old writings are worthy in their respective contexts. Visitors of this blog are probably not interested in tec...
Richard Stallman had a Marxian effect on technology in the 1980s. He started
the Free Software movement. His ideas mobilized a vast number of programmers
and the ideology he initiated still has a great gravity in the software
ecosystem. Since the year 2000, thousands of deve...
Weekends feel busier than weekdays lately. Time flew, and I just noticed that I didn’t manage to finish this week’s post. This was bound to happen. It’s okay. Shhh… it’s okay. IT’S OKAY! Discipline is not punching yourself into the mold of a wireheaded soldier. Discipline is...
This was a busy week and an even busier weekend.
I started my first bust this week. The number of details on a human face is crazy. And what’s hard about reflecting all those details on the clay is not the technique but actually noticing them. Making art requires a lot of no...
OtonomArt
I finally did it. I finally found a tutor for sculpting. Actually, what I found is much bigger than just a tutor. I found a workshop, a collective, a mirage in the middle of the desert. Actually… in the middle of an industrial zone.
On Friday I went to OtonomArt fo...
Why are vibes so bad when economic metrics don’t look that bad? Scott Alexander tries to find an answer to this question. Zvi too.
I have a great respect for Scott and Zvi. Their rationality and ability to deduce answers from the empirical data are important. However, I am n...
I’m excited for 2026.
2025 was a good year for me. After quitting my startup, which was going nowhere, at the end of 2024, I entered 2025 rejuvenated. As a result I read more, experimented more, travelled more, did more… I feel like 2025 was a stepping stone for 2026.
What I...
The internet I grew up in no longer exists.
The internet, with its hyper-fast communication flows, was meant to enable the
new golden age for humanity. We were promised to have a global village where
tribes transcend the limitations of geography. We could find our people
whe...
