// Apparently, I have TUMBLR upload issues. Hm. Wrote that text yesterday:
Today I felt way better, and I was way less productive than yesterday. The day started with plotting the data that I scrapped yesterday.
Then I went to two museums! Museums are free, so one can hop in and out quickly. First, the Air & Space museum. I felt like that was only appropriate, after first reading and then watching “The Martin”. And indeed, it was nice to see rockets and space suits and even a full-scale Hubble telescope model in real life. The rest of the museum was about aircrafts in “the great war”, and even the space travel section was very much stuck in the 80s with its cold war attitude. So I only stayed for half an hour in total and then went on to see the National Art Gallery.
The National Art Gallery was the best museum that I saw when I first visited DC two year ago; and I wanted to make sure that my taste is the same. Unfortunately, my preferred part of the museum - the East Building, with its contemporary collection - is closed due to renovations until fall. Hm. So I went into the West Building and looked at an ok exhibition of American prints.
Input? 1
Output? 4
Learnings?
There are only ten or so Mango retail stores in the US. And there is not Esprit in DC. And not Uniqlo. I’ve always assumed that all the big retail brands in Europe are a) from the US or at least b) very strong in the US. But the city I live in seems too small. Sigh.
English words with French origin are younger, more difficult and less used than English words with German origin.
If you have multiple laundry machines in the basement, you can actually use multiple laundry machines at once. WOAH. Mind blown.
The concept of the “ladder of abstraction” can be used in a text or even in a sentence. Always bring examples in text. And also try to get high-level.
When you use a tool, ask yourself: Which problem does it solve? Google helps us to solve problems, we can’t go to Google without having a specific problem to solve. Google had lots of solutions for lots of problems. Facebook on the other hand has only a hand of solutions for a hand of problems, eg “I want to know how my friends are doing.” if we go to Facebook, we should be aware of the solution we want. Problems can be blurry. But they need to be there.
Questions?
Why am I so tired? Did I sleep a) too much, b) too little or c) too bad?
Based on which grounds should I split my blogpost?