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Dear Reader, When we are referring to products and services, the adjective “exceptional” can often be used with a well-defined meaning. Speaking about people, it is much more difficult to assign the qualifier. (In the following sentences I’ll use the… Continue Reading →

Dear Reader, I’ve resolved to try to help every person I come across to be better. No scorn for imperfections, no punishment for errors, no bad blood after a quarrel: just encouragement, coaching, advice, understanding, some dedication on my part…. Continue Reading →

Dear Reader, to make something seems trivial and banal, and putting a joke at the end of the sentence can be a way to appear more intelligent than what we are. Even trying to look ever deep inside every matter,… Continue Reading →

Dear Reader,there is a video on YouTube that I hope they will never put down.Before watching it, you need to understand who Adrian Belew is.A good place to start is, as usual, its Wikipedia page, that you can read here…. Continue Reading →

Dear Reader, Yesterday I read The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger. I think that the novel does not need any introduction, but I’ll leave here the Wikipedia reference anyway.I’m not going to write about the merits of… Continue Reading →

Dear Reader, along the lines of my last post, I felt the urge to write a few lines in song/short poem form. I offer them to you, for what they are worth. I sincerely hope you enjoy them. Two of… Continue Reading →

Dear Reader, Try this exercise: for a few minutes, pull your phone from the cover and shut it down. Watch it. Consider that you look at much of your world, and speak to many people, through that shiny skinny piece… Continue Reading →

Dear Reader,As a physicist, I have always believed that a measurable hypothesis should be backed by numbers (or, at the very least, by comparisons). “This table is pretty long” is incomplete. “This table is pretty long with regards to what we are used” may seem redundant,… Continue Reading →

Dear Reader, You may be familiar with the acronym RTFM. If you are not, let me point you to the relevant page of the Urban Dictionary: Read The Fucking Manual! More than being just a nerdish way to annoy lazy… Continue Reading →