Pronouns are the wrong battle
Posted on Thu 15 February 2024 in meta
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Pronouns are the wrong battle
Posted on Thu 15 February 2024 in meta
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The differences between junior and senior software engineers
How can you tell whether you are dealing with a junior or a senior engineer, when it comes to software? And if you are looking to advance your career, how can you become senior? What …
The best ways to organize pointless meetings
All good meetings are similar, but each bad meeting is shitty in its own way. I could also say that it's hard to formalize elements that make meetings ineffective, but that's not true: I have …
Dissecting explanations of Javascript Promises
What is a Javascript Promise
? When I was documenting the Neo4j Javascript driver, I did not know. So let's find out, and in so doing tear to pieces explanations I found online. My favorite past …
How to implement the 6-hour workday in a company
It is difficult to argue that the current, wide popular 8-hour workday in cognitive-demanding jobs is in any way efficient. It is bad both for employees and employers. Quoting the Harvard Business Review,
Many of …
The spiritual similarities between playing music and table tennis
Posted on Tue 24 March 2020 in music, table tennis, meta
As a fellow table tennis player and piano player, I have noticed some interesting spiritual similarities between the two arts. I'm pretty sure they are also common to other sports anyway.
How to give a scientific talk
Posted on Wed 18 December 2019 in public speaking, tips, meta, teaching
I have listened to so many talks in so many different fields and topics, that I feel confident enough to provide advice on how to give a proper talk. I have listened to talks ranging …
The need of teaching and learning more languages
For a second, stop to think about how many languages you know. With languages, I do not mean verbal languages: rather, any means of expressing thoughts and feelings, or of expressing a dialogue. I am …
The reasons why mathematics teaching is failing
Posted on Fri 01 November 2019 in mathematics, teaching, meta
As a mathematics PhD student, I have seen a lot of mathematics teaching. I have been lucky enough to witness some (very) good teaching, but I have also been inflicted with so much bad teaching …
Is every piece of software doomed to become bloated?
One of the very few things I learnt in art class is what role Jackson Pollock played in his art. Because, we were asked, what is the role of the artist, if the only thing …
Tasks un-owned are task that go forgotten
If you are a tech company, and your people commit code, then you probably have some code review policy. And if you do not, you definitely should: you want to have an extra pair of …
A tale in topology - The large clovers meadow
Posted on Wed 18 April 2018 in meta, mathematics
A small tale with a topological soul, with the aim of providing a very high level intuition for the notion of density and dense set in topology.
Smally Open was a cheeky youngster of the …
IPSC 2014: Imagination is more important than knowledge
Posted on Sun 18 May 2014 in public speaking, meta
From 12th to 17th May I took part to the International Public Speaking Competition (IPSC) 2014 in London, representing my country, Italy. The topic was Imagination is more important than knowledge, and the title of …
Have I told you we should abolish Facebook?
Yesterday it was my birthday.
My family phoned me or just met me. Then there has been a handful of people who texted me on my mobile, mostly in the morning. I do not care …
How Windows 8 is the clear proof that Microsoft can't lead
I've just had a quick look at the Windows 8 developer preview. Not screenshots, rumors or reviews around, I've actually installed it on VirtualBox and tried it myself. Yeah, it's still early beta, developer preview …