Dijkstra Q&A
Found this on geekchic.com, a website that has disappeared, but the wayback machine caught it.
- What is your programming language of choice? my own (Algol? – Kneut)
- What is your favorite operating system? I don’t use a computer
- Do you have a hero or role model? not really
- What is your favorite kind of music? chamber music
- What is your favorite news group? I don’t use a computer
- What is your favorite web page (besides geekchic!)? I don’t use a computer
- What sports do you enjoy? none
- What kind of car do you drive? AUDI 4000
- What hobbies do you enjoy outside of work? music, photography, camping
- What is your favorite book (or author)? Dorothy L. Sayers
- What is your favorite movie? Roman Holiday
- What sort of clothing do you usually wear to work? informal, T-shirt, sandals
- What is your favorite food? soups
To think you have to be two persons
To think you have to be two persons (or more) at the same time. And you have to disagree with yourself (make sure the one person thinks up ways to justify the opinion of the second person). You have to tolerate conflict, negotiate, compromise. Adjust your thinking.
More importantly, you must not only question your own opinion, but you have to ignore the public opinion.
(After Jordan Peterson)
Facebook en Twitter: wantrouw onze content
Is het tijd is om definitief Facebook en Twitter gedag te zeggen? Beide weigeren om aantoonbaar onjuiste uitspraken van politici te verwijderen uit betaalde content. Het zou gaan om nieuwswaardige feiten, die ze niet willen censureren. Daarmee geven deze bedrijven een aantal belangrijke signalen omtrent hun moraal:
- Politici mogen liegen, en wij bieden ze er een kanaal voor.
- Leugens zijn nieuwswaardig.
- De platformen hanteren een nieuwswaardigheidsnorm bij het censureren van berichten op hun platforms, welke kennelijk belangrijker is dan de waarheidsnorm.
Wat beide organisaties niet lijken te bezeffen is dat politici zo makkelijk liegen op Twitter en Facebook, juist is omdát het laagdrempelige mogelijkheden biedt om leugens onder een groot publiek te verspreiden. En deze laagdrempeligheid geeft Twitter en Facebook de morele verantwoordelijkheid om kaf van koren te scheiden op hun platform.
Wellicht belangrijker voor deze platforms is dat het prioriteren van nieuwswaardigheid boven waarheid ook op al hun goedbedoelende adverteerders op het platform neerslaat.
“Alle content op onze platforms zijn potentiële leugens”, zeggen Facebook en Twitter.
Ik denk dat ze daarmee hun eigen graf graven. Ze leven tenslotte van advertenties. Maar mogelijk komen ze tot bezinning komen en hun suffe beslissing terug draaien.
Starting low budget and 100 (or so) free resources
Start a website on for free on wordpress.com or tumblr. Try it out for a few months.
Start a shop on eBay or Amazon. For free. Only pay for the place when you sell something.
Write a book with pen and paper. Publish on Medium. Or WordPress.com. Be surprised about the feedback you get.
Join a writer’s forum. For example Authority.pub.
Draw on used paper. With an old pencil.
Sell on Etsy. Or on your own free site. Advertise amongst your friends.
Build an email list. Use Mailchimp.
Use public transportation for your business trips. For every ticket you buy there is an invoice associated. No need for a lease car that cost you hundreds of euros even when there is no business.
The benefits of constraints: focus, creativity, discipline
A million things distract; you can only focus on one.
Start on a shoestring. It’s more fun.And constraints fuel your creativity (David Byrne).
You focus on what you want to achieve. Not on other shit.There are a million things that can distract you. There is only one thing to focus on.
Starting on a low budget, gives you focus, makes you disciplined about priorities.
What you need to get started as a developer
If you want to develop stuff, you can do that almost for free.
An old laptop with Linux will suffice. A new reasonably performing laptop will cost you 350$. Get a used one that is even better, for less on ebay.
Linux will cost you nothing.
Development tools will cost you nothing.You don’t need an 8 core machine and a 17″ screen.You will learn. Build skills. For nothing.
Here are 100 free resource I love
Don’t get lost. Use the stuff you need.
Productivity.
Evernote,Scannable,Skitch,Pocket.Linux.Open Office. LibreOffice.Mozilla Thunderbird.Filezilla.Gmail , hotmail (yes we think that is normal now, free email).
Storage.
Dropbox, Google Drive, Stack (!!), iCloud, OneDrive.
Programming.
XAMPP, WAMP, LAMP.php, python, Java, erlang, Javascript, node-red.Git.Jenkins.LiClipse, Eclipse.Notepad++Atom
Education/learning general.
Edx.Khan Academy.
MOOCs.
Internet marketing: AuthorityHacking, Henneke Duistermaat.
Duolingo.
itunesU.
Podcasts.
James Altucher, Tim Ferriss, Seriousy…, Startalk, TED, a16z, The Nerdist, The Art of Manliness, Freakonomics Radio, Akimbo, a16z, Jordan Harbinger, Rolf Potts Deviate.
Fun.
Pokemon Go.
Volgbrothers.
Casey Neistadt.
Candycrush.
(Totally not fun anymore: Facebook. I only use it for groups I am in.)
Photography.
Eric Kim, The Candid Frame, Ted Forbes, streetrepeat.
Instagram (mwa less and less fun), Snapseed, Phototoaster, Camera+, Flickr.
But best get your own wordpress site and build it the coming 35 years.
Cheap cameras on eBay.
Weird shit.
Wired.
Calm.
The School of Life (and The Book of Life).
Interweb.
WordPress (.com), Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, Medium.
DuckDuckGo.
Talk (chat).
Skype, messenger, Line WeChat, Viber, Whatsapp.
Activity/Sport.
Strava.
Crea.
Adobe draw/Sketch.
Free wifi.
In the train, MacDonalds, some airports.Free wifi finding apps. Instabridge.
Business.
Mailchimp.
Gnucash.
Togaf. Archi, Archimate.
Mozilla Thunderbird.
Slack.
OBS Studio.
wikipedia.
Travel.
Google maps.Free wifi finding apps. Instabridge.
Low budget / high value for money
Evernote premium.
transIP hosting. hostgator.
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