I wish it was like that, huh?

Sharing knowledge/teaching/showing other people how to do things is a difficult process. Not only is it difficult but also mostly underestimated. For the “untrained eye”, teaching sounds simple until you actually have to do it.

Learning is messy

We all learn in different ways. Some people learn in a visual way (using mental maps, diagrams or other techniques), some people have fantastic auditive memory and comprehension skills, and learn better by recording lessons, or attending events/classes in person… regardless, the gist of it is that there’s not a single universal way to learn, and we all function in different ways.

Attention under attack

To make things worse, nowadays we have big attention issues thanks to having every single device fighting for our attention. It’s almost impossible to focus without putting some boundaries and I feel this is where a lot of people fall into that trap, get disappointed/discouraged/anxious and go into bad “mental places” making things worse. (of course, in a totally unconscious way)

In general, human interaction is mostly underestimated

And on top of all that, we also underestimate the human part of the whole thing.

I generally feel there’s a lot of “human interaction” type of activities that people tend to underestimate, probably because we miss that teaching isn’t just showing something or doing a demo. It’s paying attention to how people actually learn, respecting their pace, and not assuming the way we learn is the universal way. If we did that more often, half our “communication problems” would probably be alleviated.

Anyway, that’s my rant. Teaching is hard, learning is weird, attention is broken, and humans are complicated. But if we remember that, maybe we’ll stop expecting this process to be easy.

It changes a lot having a nice work setup. It changes your day and even how tired you get. We spend a lot of our day on that place (specially if you are a nerd like me) and the more enjoyable our place is, the better.

Spending a bit more on a nice device can change your day.

There you go… if you were waiting for an excuse to buy a gadget for your “work-cave” this is it. You’re welcome!

This experiment only works if I stay consistent, and consistency requires keeping publishing simple. That’s why I chose a very simple Hugo template based on the PaperMod theme. I might write about the process in the future.

Huge thanks to my friend Sebastian for planting the seed to try blogging again. Blogging to me always felt like a more “pure” way of interacting with the web, it kinda takes me back to when I was a kid getting into computers discovering things like irc, compilers like Turbo Pascal and the beginnings of the internet.

No data collection or cookies — I don’t sell anything. I’ll keep the site lean while preserving small, subtle design touches (colors, fonts).