Yesterday night I decided that I won’t do anything work-related today. Then I woke up this morning and found out that I’m on Hacker News...sooo, I spent some minutes here and then of my day to respond to the comments there. Which was fun! The Hacker News comments were wonderful hard (and still justified) in their critique. Far more so than Twitter or the actual comments on the website.
Besides that, I met with M and we walked around Adam’s Morgan (a neighborhood here) and asked people about their definition “The American Dream”. Somebody said that it means to get rich, somebody said it means to be free and have right, somebody said it means to fight for a always better world. My favorite answer was that “The American Dream” means self-fulfillment: Living up to the standards you set yourself. It made me wonder which standards I set for myself. I guess it’s “becoming better at data science”, mostly. I guess that’s my goal here in DC. I think that’s ok.
Eight hours after these interviews, I went to a comic party with great, great artistic people and great music and some good comics at the wall. My friend J from Berlin is in town and invited me to this event, and it was super nice to see some creative energy in this city.
What else happened? I spoke to R, I drew, I bought excellent Ben&Jerry’s speculoos ice cream and started watching Breaking Bad. Yepp, for the first time in my life. No, I didn’t watch it back then.
That was a good day, all in all. I’m glad it this day was part of my life.
Input? 3
Output? 2
Learnings?
Taking an Uber takes less money than I thought it is. I will consider it far more often in the future.
Trying new flavors of a thing like ice cream can be a great idea.
Questions?
Is it a good idea to ask questions every single day? Maybe I should redo this section. How about “one thing from today that I want to keep (doing)”? Hm. I’ll keep thinking about that.