Summer 2021, I spent almost two months in the foreign lands of finance. By then, the world had already entered a new era, crypto-everything. It was the opportunity to, (a) forge myself a piece of understanding applicable to “things of value” and (b) use that to make sense of the…

Much like any thought I’ve had so far. Ideas come in pair and the result is something interesting. This, is no exception. Back when I wrote about objects[†] and order[‡], I made a realization. Regulating loops with counters is like using a fraction of their potential. When you learn to…

It was only natural that my thoughts on knowledge and subsequent realizations would extend to the consideration of alternative ways to engineer understanding and thus, descriptions. The drive of this work is a found connection between ontologies — one of the formal ingredients† of descriptions — and distinctions. To put…

It has been almost a year since I wrote “Knowledge as the Art of Drawing Distinctions” and during all this time I have been pondering about the utility of that essay. The idea of dissolving knowledge into its formal ingredients is exciting in and of itself. Yet, to fulfill my…

The possibility that knowledge wasn’t a standalone entity did not occur to me early on. I had to go for a while thinking about knowledge as a thing on its own. Just to realize more than once that the discussion gets mixed “out of necessity” with other aspects. The first…

Three years ago as I was reading “Topology through Inquiry”, I had a struck of inspiration. It lead me to rethink the fundamentals of Sets to account for the concept of a hole. I wrote everything down and until yesterday, these ideas were nothing but scribbles hidden between the pages. …

There is definitely something remarkable in doing things by hand. An involvement with the matter than no alternative can match. The act of expression on paper is powerful. Not only it gives you room to perform but also the contemplate your performance as it unfolds. It is intuitive and unforgettable. …

It has been twenty-years since I had my first PC; a gift from my late uncle. I was about five back then. A Windows 95 that came with a lot of exploration games; a perfect environment for the kid I was. Until, … I got curious about how to take…

It was cleverly solved, yet I kept thinking about it. I had more understanding to manifest. That day, my brother showed me a sorting algorithm he implemented in assembly code. From the outline of his explanation I noticed a possibility for optimization. I grabbed a pencil and I drew a…