• Went for a social distanced walk around Stanley Park with [[Sean Lynch]]. Really great discussion!

• I mentioned [[When Tailwinds Vanish: The Internet in the 2020s]] as I do to all people building Internet businesses these days.

• Sean mentioned [[DBT]], which he described as "Jinja templates for SQL" -- basically, a way to make SQL more modular and more maintainable, without having to have an abstraction layer over top of it.

• Question from Sean, who lived in Vancouver's West End about 15 years ago, was why it didn't seem to have changed much. That is, different businesses and a few changes, but that it seemed "sleepy", in an area of the city that's right next to English Bay and Stanley Park and would seem to be generally desirable to live in.

• My theories are:

• Limited Turnover: long term rentals, not a significant amount of new building to make a difference, and not a common place for things like student rentals, so not high turnover on a regular basis.

• Two buses from anywhere: to get anywhere else in/out of the West End, you're always going to have to take at least two buses (or a bus to get to a Skytrain connection).

• I guess there have been some new buildings closer to Burrard / along the water, but that's not really the west end anymore, and they have all been exclusive / expensive condos and townhouses, so again not large numbers of people.

• We talked a bit about housing since Sean knows I'm interested in [[Cobuilding]]. Berlin and their rent freeze came up, and also the term [[Overton Window]] , which is a conceptual tool I find myself using a lot, so now I'll have an entry here for it.

2020-11-29

• Reviewed [[daily]]
• Reviewed [[do]], added some more [[action]]s.
• Reorganized/cleaned up my [[todo]].
• [[write]] to [[O]].
• [[do]] laundry
• [[do]] take out garbage
• [[do]] take a walk
• [[send]] update to [[james baker]]
• [[do]] accept [[arghzero]]'s [[PR]]
  • check CLA in internal system
  • merge: https://github.com/flancian/agora-server/pull/1/files
• [[read]] the meeting agenda doc for [[social knowledge graphs discussion]].
  • Node everyone that currently doesn't have a node
    • [[samuel klein]]
    • [[joel gustafson]]
    • [[denny vrandecic]]
    • [[ruben verborgh]]
    • [[todd carpenter]]
    • [[nettie lagace]]
    • [[rob sanderson]]
    • [[jennifer rygh]]
    • [[fabien gandon]]
    • [[andrei ciortea]]
• (here I procrastinated, albeit in a hopefully in a constructive way, due to [[FUD]])
• [[write]] in the meeting agenda doc for [[social knowledge graphs discussion]].
• [[do]] pay internet/phone bills
• [[answer]] [[armengolaltayol]]
• re-review [[logseq]]
• work on [[agora plan]]
• noded [[federated wiki]]
• noded [[sister sites]]
• found [[pubpub]] through [[sarah of the past]]
• [[ben chase]] told me about [[weekend wednesday]]: https://twitter.com/bbchase/status/1333115033757343750 pull
• [[write]] explicitly about [[roam like]]s as [[distributed knowledge graph]] builders.
• [[airto moreira]] was sampled in that 90s song, [[samba de janeiro]].

15:14 luck

read an interesting reddit thread about how much we tend to disregard luck in western culture.

the belief that we have the ability to transform our circumstances means, conseqently, that we take responsibility for many of our faults, trying to attribute them to concrete actions and failures of our own or of those around us rather than putting them to 'luck' or 'circumstance'.

one of the most important things one can do is to determine what is in their control and what is outside it. this is the first step towards seizing opportunities that are in one's control rather than those that are down to chance, taking advantage of the circumstances we currently possess is vital to being able to succeed.

all the same, of course it's dangerous to say that life's luck; we can take charge of our own decisions to a degree. the balance is stricken when we dismiss things we cannot control and seize control of those we properly can.

i suppose this is not a new idea but i needed a reminder of this

2020-11-29

• After adding the [[logo]], the header section doesn't look so hot on the garden on my mobile - the logo doesn't adapt so adds too much width. It looks fine in the browser dev tools in Firefox on on small screens, but not in the Chrome dev tools.

  • Fix: it needed wrapping in an anchor tag.

• Seems like my backlinks in [[Flock]] don't publish when I run make republish, but they do if I do org-publish-current-file. Why?

  • Ah it was because I'd left the [[org-roam]] DB setting org-roam-db-location pointing at the wrong place in publish.el.

• Why do I have to keep restart [[syncthing]] on my mobile in order to sync files to my laptop?

2020-11-29

• Talked with [[jesyspa]] about "inverting" complex maps for a tool that will render transformations to the complex plane.
• Continued work on my implementation of a HashMap and HashSet for cats-collections.
• Looked into [[Horizon EDA]] for development of asynchronous circuits.
• Looked into the usage of [[Chisel]] to make managing and testing custom components easier.
• Worked with [[Tenri]] on developing the complex map tool as a website, using Outwatch and MathLive. It exists at https://gitlab.com/srnb/complexmap.