Dealing with a client who hasn’t paid and has gone MIA - this has taken up so much of my peace the past 2 weeks. I learnt the hard way that there are very little international laws to protect freelance workers. My country can’t do anything to help, other than to lodge a police report for formality purpose but I am fairly amazed that DOJ has been responsive as the client is American - and although it will take a few weeks, at least something I guess. The good thing about US governing bodies and justice systems is that they have always been polite. I don't know if they are polite to americans but they have been polite to me. My benchmark for response is so low that they shock the bejesus out of me with politeness all the time. Man, bootstrapping is tough - not the kind you get funded and still complain non stop lol, but the kind you work your arse off to self fund and have responsibilities and stress 24/7. But all throughout, I do have this sweet boy for comfort. Little things I am grateful for.

Game theory is an interesting concept where tact and insecurity both holds a strong influence in situational outcomes In the 80s, Prof Axelrod built a game that uses multiple probabilities of actions iterated from the prisoner's dilemma and found that the people that comes up on top, are often those that are : Nice Forgiving Not a pushover Keeps it clear / simple And tit for tat was the most successful strategy

What’s your user adoption strategy ? A simple questions commonly missed or overly-hyped. Needs some fuzzy logic

A fuzzy logic kinda day

My current read is ‘Women, Art and Power and Other Essays by Linda Noclin. She is big on literary realism and her work looks into how art reflects and shapes societal attitudes toward gender and sexuality. Often there is a tendency to emphasize sexual aspects over other substantial portrayals of women. In one lecture, she speaks about the erotic nature of women’s appearance in art, while showing a picture of a naked man all through the session. These are the types of lectures that would challenge conventional norms and broaden perspectives, by forcing you to put yourself in another person's shoes and engaging with what you see, feel, hear, and grasp—and I think these type of education is vastly missing in today’s world

I'd like to read more banned books. Let me know what books are banned in your country or anything in particular that you like