Ibrahim Diallo

You can "improve" at "reading books"
1 - Learn fast reading
2 - get classical/sf/hf/polar/etc culture
Most of the books i read gives better knowledge about something (history for example) or makes me more able to handle complex reasoning (philosophical, analytics, etc)
You can definitively improve at reading or read to improve yourself.
I think there is no passion where you cannot improve. And there is always a way to measure it.

Anyway, I find your approach of 'hobbie' a bit strange. I feel like hobbies are something that closely relates to 'you'. I mean, if you like sport, you can go to dance, mma, shooting, trail, basket, hand, etc. Possibilities are endless.
If you like intellectual activities it can goes from video games to engaging in neww studies (physics, neuroscience, etc).
You can go in artistics things like painting/sculpting/photography/street art/...
You can go on blacksmithing/woodturning/jewelery/etc

I think the best question to find your hobbies are: "what do i want to become ? what time do i have?". I know someone who's struggeling with an urge to find something to do after his work an who finds him unable to engage in any activity because he is not driven by wanting to do something for a purpose but just to have an activity. Having commitment for something you do just to makes your life less empty is really hard. It's easier to find hobbies if you have a goal.

I don'y know if it makes any sense to you or even if it's revelant, sorry if it's not the…

I wish non-conformity was more of a thing at points where it actually matters. Your product manager asks you to add invasive user tracking and surveillance? Push back and explain how this makes the world a worse place. Got a ticket to implement a "[yes][ask me later]" dialog [1]? Make a short survey that shows how user hate it. Nobody listens to you? Refuse to comply. The government requires you to take deeply unethical or unlawful actions? Sabotage the feature [2] (or quit/resign).

Performative non-conformance might be e.g. helpful to nurture a culture of critical thinking, but if it is just performative, then it is worthless.

(I write this with no intent to criticize you, burningChrome, or Jyn. You might very well do just that.)

(Also, I'm aware that the ability to push back is very unevenly distributed. I'm addressing those that can afford this agency. And also, non-conformance is spectrum: You can also push back a little without choosing the specific point to be the hill to die on. Every bit counts.)

[1] https://idiallo.com/blog/hostile-not-enshittification

[2] https://www.404media.co/heres-a-pdf-version-of-the-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism/

For my personal websites, I only ever tried wordpress around 10 years ago before I built my own from scratch.

https://idiallo.com

What I find interesting is that a swat of new developers thinks that the only options are:

1. free hosting with lock-in platforms (medium, blogger, ...)

2. Clever hacks (github, netlify, cloudflare...)

3. Expensive hosting ($40/m+)

The alternative is to use shared hosting for simple content. Or cheap but excellent services like linode, digitalocean, or vultr. They set you back $5/m or less.

Host your own content, make local backups. If your provider complains, find another host, copy and paste your content and update the dns.

Isn't the whole point of machine algorithms to find the best spot between variance and bias? In which case, every algorithms will have some bias.

IMO, the focus should instead be on not overselling algorithms as being infallible rather something which will have some bias and needs overriding time to time. If a system is fully automated without checks and balances we might have serious problems. A good non-ML example was discussed couple of days ago on HN where a person was terminated by a machine without much oversight:

https://idiallo.com/blog/when-a-machine-fired-me

That's why Kagi is winning! I can't wait for LinkedIn "influencers" to start using this seriously.

Last year, we had layoffs. I spent a whole lot of time on linkedin writing recommendations for my ex-colleagues. I couldn't help but read so many LinkedIn stories, and I was surprised how supportive the comments where. I couldn't believe it. So naturally I've come up with my own [0]. I don't think I have the courage to post it there with a straight face though.

[0]: https://idiallo.com/blog/the-show-on-the-other-foot-linkedin-stories

The blog that I started ~13 years ago started as 3 .html files. Everything else followed as needed (styling, rss, comments, etc.). If you can get past building it, the next question becomes "What should I write about?" [0]

My answer is usually that you can write whatever you want on your websites. It's yours after all. None of the limitations that exist on third-party platforms exist. You can make all the pages read upside down if you want to.

[0]: https://idiallo.com/blog/what-should-i-write-about