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The broken bicycle
The mental model of the broken bicycle is from a personal story of mine that identifies conditioning that was instilled while one was younger, triggering automatic responses that are fear-based rather than reason. Key ideas Be clear about what you have control of Assess emotions to determine what concerns it raises To achieve a more…
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On Hexagonal architecture : Why? (Part 1)
Some interfaces provide many options and empower users immensely, but suffer in user experience. How might we find the balance between power and usability?
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On Hexagonal architecture : Common mistakes (Part 2)
As the second entry in this blog series, this blog post jumps straight into issues and challenges encountered in the developer experience.
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On curiosity and discovery
In this blog post, I talk about my experience exploring GitHub and RxGo, and a walkthrough to my learning perspective driven from a position of curiosity. This blog post is intended for curious developers who might want to contribute to open source but are hesitant or intimidated by other skilled developers. Hopefully by the end…
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Numeracy: How to quiet your fears using probabilities
I think that story telling is an excellent way to introduce mathematical concepts applied in real life scenarios. I think that it is an effective way to draw people’s attention (kids and adults alike!) and to help people move from concrete ideas (stories) to abstract ideas (theories, formulas). Ultimately, I think mathematics is a super…
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Exploring machine learning
I have a friend of mine who began his exploration of machine learning in Python a few months back. Excited to help him out and curious as to where he is in his familiarity in statistics and algorithms (See mental model: the Forest), we hopped on a call and discussed a few things. As we…