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Hacker News - Comment Response to Hobbyist robotics
In response to the posts on this hackernews post, I wanted to take a simple thought experiment into what it would take to create a simple hobbyist snowblower robot. This is all very high level and is not exact by any means.
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What would you do
There's an exercise that asks you to begin with the end in mind. This is clearly stated in many books if you've read anything out of the self-help books, it's a common theme. It's one that has wrestled with man kind for clearly centuries. We read first about it in the stoic philosophy that tries to get us to think about our deaths as a reminder of it's ever looming date. These questions of death ask us with certainty about what we want out of life.
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Half year check in
Being it the 28th of June, and having June come and gone so quickly, I wanted to check in with myself to see how this year in review was going.
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Everything Decays
Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have. - Epictetus
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The Opposite of Instincts
I had been pondering this idea of things in nature that are opposite of our intuition, in that doing the 'right' thing at times in our life doesn't follow what we would expect.
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Something happened
During high school and college I was a morning person. I loved getting up early in the mornings to read, play some video games, or any other topic that kept me in the 'flow'.
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2020 Goals and Systems
After doing a 2019 in review, I wanted to set up some new routines for some extra discipline in my life for 2020.
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Knowledge consumption routine
I love having conversations with other people about reading. Topics in the realm of what they read, why they read, how much they read, where they read, and the habits of how they read. The amount of choices available to any person at any time are at an all time high and ever rising.
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2019 retrospective
2019 has been a wild ride for me. It was a year of many things, filled of some first time experiences, humbling encounters, some character building sessions, some personal growth lessons, and most of all, tons of small improvements.
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Why I read
Let me ask you a quick question: if you know that reading is essential to certain parts of learning and growth, then you already know why you read, but is it deeper than that? Is it something engrained in our subconscious minds through hundreds if not thousands of years of evolution?
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