“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” Supposedly Albert Einstein said it. I don’t care if Aristotle, Plato, Kant, Descartes, Newton, Hume, Wittgenstein, Frege, Bohr, Feynman and Hawking had all stamped and signed the statement. I don’t agree with it and I don’t want to live in a world where…
Author: sImenSIasMS
Prediction Game
Prediction: the niche blog is old. What I’ll call the lens blog is what’s hot right now. Of course, that assumes that for one thing to blossom, another must die, which is stupid, but hey, that’s how the prediction game works, right? You have to predict that one thing dies if you’re going to predict that another rises, right?…
Fraud
There’s this ritual. It’s called Fraud. What you do is, you list out all your good qualities and all your bad qualities. Then you immediately attribute all your good qualities to other people, and all your bad qualities to yourself. Of your good attributes, those which you have acquired from others, copied from them, in…
In Praise of the Tumblelog
Now that “the tumblelog” has morphed (# of google results being symptomatic) into “the tumblr”, a different beast altogether, I think it’s appropriate to analyze it. Call it a post mortem. When n+1 can do What was the hipster?, I’ll do What was the tumblelog? Potential accusations of navel-gazing acknowledged before moving on undeterred. The first tumblelog, not by virtue…