There were two highlights of my day: First, Ben Fry mentioned my blog post in his talk at Eyeo. Eyeo is a festival that’s apparently pretty awesome and I put some serious thought into the idea that I should go. I decided not to. But I get mentioned anyway. By a great guy. How awesome is that.
The other highlight was making the connection between the french/german word “pointe” and the english word “point”. “What,” you will think, “isn’t that obvious? These words are almost written exactly the same.” Indeed, my friend, indeed. And still, I used the word “pointe” hundreds of time and the word “point” thousands of time without noticing their similarities - because they are pronounced so differently. “Po-inte” vs “point”. Yeah. That’s my excuse.
Besides that: ok-ish day today. I tried to find a new bank, plotted some things again some other things, prepared my Vancouver talk on the NPR terrace (the weather is still awesome; the temperature is perfect) and watched a video about dplyr and tidyr and ggvis. All R libraries I want to learn more about.
Input? 4
Output? 3
Learnings?
“From the Stanford study, we learn not only that awareness doesn’t necessarily lead to action to fight racism—it may lead, even unconsciously, to greater racial bias.” Source
Larry Page invested 100 million dollar in flying cars so far. What a truly great time to be alive.
Visualisations are great because they can make you away of things you didn’t expect. But they don’t scale, because people need to look at it. That’s why you want models. So first you want to transform, then visualise, then model. Source
Questions?
Is it better to work on a project that might be on the lower side of the scale of impact and usefulness, but can teach me a lot - or is it spending the time looking for more impactful projects that also teach me a lot but are hard to find? I guess the question is: What do I prioritize more: Outer impact or personal growth?