Location: Europe
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: JS, Swift, SwiftUI, Python, Django
Email: renarl@gmail.com
I am a full stack and mobile developer with a PhD in computer science and proficiency in JavaScript, Python, and Swift. I am particularly excited by the recent advances in text and image generation and am seeking a company that shares my passion for using technology to drive innovation and improve people's well-being.
Throughout my career, I have had the opportunity to work on a variety of projects related to the semantic web, knowledge representation, and machine learning, and have founded a few companies of my own. One recent project that I am particularly proud of is an emotions learning app that helps individuals better understand and manage their emotions. This app has already made a positive impact on the lives of people, and I am excited about the potential for it to reach even more people in the future.
I believe that my technical expertise, dedication to delivering mental well-being, happiness, and capability amplification, and my entrepreneurial spirit make me a valuable asset to any team. If you know of any opportunities that align with my goals and values, I would love to hear from you.
I had a similar problem with emotions: specifically, limited emotional vocabulary and the inability to distinguish what I’m feeling. To help myself, I partnered with an emotion coach and created an app to expand my emotional vocabulary and come into contact with what I’m feeling. https://apps.apple.com/app/emote/id1609038427
I can’t share a whole lot, mainly because I don’t know much myself. In the pre-COVID days, before I stopped going to parties, then blew up my life and moved to another city (thus not having a social network to attend parties with) there were many things to consider when hosting:
- who to invite (complicated by melt/flakiness) - involves making predictions about how people will behave and interact with each other
- how many to invite
- when to start
- when to end and how to end
- what beverages, snacks, food to include; how such things will be prepared and delivered in sequence
- drug and alcohol (also a drug) choices
- what music to play
- lighting and furniture arrangement; use of space generally
- desired outcomes; things to watch for; connections to encourage or discourage
- props, toys, games, and other objects (I suppose food and snacks are partially a subset)
- compartmentalization and breakaway spaces
An example of a party that the author would likely enjoy would be an informal book club gathering with a mixer before or after, or perhaps a showing of a film adaptation with discussion for interested participants after, while less interested people can break off to play board games. Or perhaps board games would be stimulating enough, there are a broad range of kinds, and they can drastically change the feel/experience of an evening.
I suppose “engineering” implies a formal discipline. I think that actually is a profession, I just know nothing about it. But design thinking can be applied by anyone to anything, and I do try to be intentional and/or am slightly neurotic about hosting.
Makes me wonder how many insanely taste things we are not experiencing because they went extinct or have not appeared yet. Defiantly there are way way more than the ones that we happened to overlap with.
I would be happy if supermarkets stocked more than one or two of the blandest varieties of most foods. There's plenty of existing tasty foods you don't get to experience.
There are thousands of mindblowingly delicious fruits that are simply incompatible with modern supply chains so most people don't even know exist. I recommend "Weird Explorer" on youtube to get a small glimpse.
Nice! Will check that out. I just saw a thing yesterday about nutmeg, the fruit it comes from and the 'mace' which is a beautiful webbing around the pit. Never heard of any of it.
Farmers markets very occasionally will have interesting fruit, often I suspect as a side project for the farmer, sitting at the back of their stall for a couple of weeks only.
In Californian farmers markets and fruit stalls I've been able to get some relatively uncommon fruit with unique flavours: feijoa, persimmon, passionfruit, pomegranate.
Travel is another way to be exposed to new fruit via alternate supply chains. Most Americans have never heard of feijoa but New Zealand in autumn is awash with them! You don't even need to buy them cause everyone has a friend, relative or neighbour with a tree trying to git rid of theirs before they go off!
I ate some ants, primate style with a stick, to mess with my kids and some of their friends at a party. They were surprisingly tasty. I don't know if it was the ants or the pine tar that was stuck to them but something gave me horrible gas pains for a day lol.
Maybe fresh woolly mammoth tasted like ambrosia and unicorn spunk. There must have been some reason to hunt them beyond my ken; deer etc, smaller game seems much more viable otherwise.
Sure, if you want to be the wimpy kid in the group that goes for a measly deer while the rest of the group goes after a wooly mammoth, go right ahead. You will rightly deserve all of the flack the rest of the group gives. Peer pressure, boy, I don't know.
for sure, but if you could push a button to make it so, would you really risk giving up chocolate (or whatever you consider to be the tastiest thing in the world) forever for potentially something less tasty? :P
no right or wrong here, just an honest and silly question
I know I wouldn't risk chocolate, coffee, beer and wine for anything
I’ve also found that journaling without prompts is much more sustainable for me. Now, for the second year, I’m doing daily morning pages of at least 750 words. It takes me about 30 minutes of free-flow writing. I can write whatever comes, and if nothing comes, I write that. It’s helped me to become much more self-aware about what’s going on in my mind and also mostly solved my fear of starting from a blank page.
Initially, I used https://750words.com/ which helped to create a routine. But now I'm using obsidian daily notes with a word counter plugin.
So you do your morning pages in Obsidian? I'm curious how your pages and content may change depending on whether you're doing it on paper & pen as opposed to a word processor & keyboard.
I live blog my entire day in Obsidian. My tasks are interspersed with my working notes, links, record of frustrations, noting wrong turns, celebrating progress.
At the end of the day I extract any good reference sections into separate notes.
This system has made my days much more conscious and productive.
