Cats, good books, AI, and religious walking in the city of Sofia
This writing prompt made me think. Other than being tall and with a great hair, maybe persistence. And I strive for kindness, although I wouldn’t say I do as well as I could.
Here’s a quote from an old post:
Colleagues! The drop drills the stone not with force but with persistence.
The daily writing prompt is poking me at my weak spot. I walk every day I can and my goal is to walk roughly 2h per day or 10K steps. I believe that walking makes life better, and cars make it worse. Walking also gives material for blog posts.
Here are photos from my two daily walks today. The first one was part of my trip back home.
A thousand tourists staring at a marvelous tourist creation, like flies attracted by sugary water. Tourists can make the prettiest thing on the planet look undesirable.
Stray white panther from Sofia. Well fed and bored, refused to look at me for the photo. Wouldn’t have seen her without my evening walk to buy food. No tourists around.
I take breaks.
My long-term fitness goal is to do 10K steps per day on average over the course of a full year. It forces me to go out and not be attached to a screen. Do 20K steps on a good weekend day and I get a bonus – the strong desire to have a nap.
I read paper books. This way I disconnect and relax more than I would if I read e-books and am exposed to pings and distractions.
I don’t know if these methods are effective. Ask me in 10 or 20 years.
Within the family, I believe that arguments should be resolved before going to bed.
Regarding non-family, it’s more complicated. Holding a grudge means punishing yourself for mistakes others did and unfairness outside of your control. But then, how else do we respond to the negative feelings? Not sure.
Overall, it’s a dead end. Not good for anyone. Do not recommend.
By distance, it has to be Kauai. It was a company meetup, one of the most epic I’ve attended. 12.9K km, 24+ hours of travel one-way. Our lead wanted to organize the best meetup ever and did one that’s very difficult to beat. It remained a good lifetime memory.
Imagine you have a group of 20 to gather together for a week from all over the world. Where would you go? Turns out that if you optimize for travel time, travel cost, opportunity cost, hotel, food, and convenience, you’ll get a very small list of cities next to the biggest airports on the planet. The group of 20 is likely skewed one way or another. Have more Americans? The top 10 choices will be continental USA or Canada, you end up visiting Montreal or Portland every year. Have more people from the EU? Lisbon, Barcelona, Amsterdam. You’ve got to have some Australians in the group to make Kauai even remotely possible 🙂
However, if we don’t count physical distance but the time and effort it takes to come back home, it has to be the military service.
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