Elaborating on the Wheel model, Renaissance and Dawn — The largest working water wheel in the world is located in a village named Laxey on The Isle of Man; hence the name: Laxey Wheel. Built in 1854, it’s still operational till this day, featuring a 72-foot-6-inch (22.1 m) diameter and the delivery capacity of 250 imperial gallons (in approximately…

The first ever intellectual shock came when I was anxiously sitting in my Philosophy 101 class. I wasn’t anxious about the actual class itself — philosophy seemed like an abstract, ancient but still “passable” subject for a young college student that had no prior experience with metaphysics; I was anxious…

In 50 years or so, what are some of the technologies from our time that the first-year computer science students are going to giggle at? Some of their professors are probably going to be a bit annoyed because they could still remember updating relationship status on Facebook to “it’s complicated”…

I’d basically decided to name the next version of MOFFAS Panta Rhei, over the last couple of days, so it was such a wild and surreal feeling just now when I randomly flipped open a book the poem on that page was called In Heraclitus’s River. The book was a…

I had a good laugh reading my last blog. I can’t even remember the last time I had that much explosive “passion” (O.K. I do remember now — it was 2019 when the Toronto Raptors won the Championship and I was screaming at my cats ecstatically for a long while)…

I had been struggling with the identity of MOFFAS ever since I decided to take the project a little further than just leaving it as a plugin nobody used or heard of over a year ago. The struggle was not with the lack of exposure, marketing and or anything in…

(Notes: this ends up being the most difficult thing I’ve written in the last ten years. I definitely struggled. While I am not satisfied with it, I am still posting it because it gives me more motivation and urgency to come back and edit it. …

I want to start part III of the Mindset series with Charles Fourier, who we ended part II with. In the early 19th century, Fourier, believing cooperation was the key to the success of a society, designed and developed the idea of “Phalanstère.” A phalanstère is a type of co-housing…

My friend recently posted a message on social media that her 6-year-old son started taking python classes this summer and could already make programs to make a robot flip. As someone that started coding pretty late and never had the chance to get formal training for it, I was amazed…