Non-practice

You don’t get smarter as you age (if you don’t chose to do so)

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I have two assumptions for this blog post:

  • If you don’t plan to, you don’t get smarter as you age – how can I prove this? In my opinion, most people in age are not necessarily smarter at 40 than they were at 20; sure, they are better at some things, but, overall they may not be smarter; or, to put it another way, not much smarter; I personally don’t see this in life – „People at 40 at smarter than people at 20”; sure, they are better with some skills, but not necessarily much smarter;
  • If you plan to, you can get smarter – how can I prove this? A lot of people that are smart now have gone through an intended process (read the things they planned, had the experiences they planned, went through life with a plan);

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Saturday night

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It’s Saturday night. A friend says – „Hey, it’s Saturday, why not spend the night in the club, since, anyhow, there’s not anything else we can do better?” Snap. I forgot how it’s like not to have anything to do; sure, if you care for your living only, it’s fine to go & dance in the bar for the night; but sometimes there’s more in this life than you and for this purpose I felt bad only at the thought; „Dexter’s Laboratory” (cartoon) dialogue: – How do you have fun? – Fun? What is that – „fun”? – It’s a pleasurable activity; – Oh, we have that (and the peasant goes on to show Dexter a method of both working and having fun); I mean, it’s nice, you can have fun, sure; but to say there’s nothing you can do better than this, since the next day is a (perhaps rainy) Sunday is a bit strange; there’s a whole planet; it’s the Bucharest of 2011; there’s a lot of things to be done; lots.

Cum am descoperit PC-ul și cum mi-a schimbat trecutul pe care l-am avut prezentul pe care îl am?

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Descoperirea: Suntem în 1997. Aveam un Home Computer (HC) ’91 produs de ICE (Întreprinderea de Calculatoare Electronice) Felix. Învățasem ceva programare BASIC pe el, tastasem multe linii de cod într-o perioadă în care pe HC nu puteai salva datele decât prin metode complicate. Mama mea își dădea lucrarea de grad (I, parcă). Coordonatorul lucrării i-a sugerat, „(și) pentru binele copiilor”, să (ne) cumpere un PC.

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