Oscar Bazaldua

@oscb
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I'm a curious and restless software engineer.

Currently working at Segment OSS mobile libraries. Previously Amazon, 343 Industries, Microsoft.

From 🇲🇽, currently living in the beautiful PNW

Interested in: #f1 #cats #cars #photography #js #ts #swiftlang #dotnet

Githubhttps://github.com/oscb

📖 This year I read "The Anatomy of Anxiety" by Ellen Vora, it is quite a great book for those of you who like me don't appreciate books that just treat anxiety as a problem that can be solved through positive vibes and prefer a more rational approach to it.

I'm one of those people who like to understand problems before fixing them, and it gave me great insights on what anxiety really is and why studies think different approaches work.

The truth is that I struggle a lot with anxiety. (1/2)

@charliesbot es data que sirve para algo, pero no sin contexto y no para el público en general.
Al final es solo otro número para gamification y que la gente sin interactions en Twitter (la mayor parte de los usuarios) sienta la urgencia de optimizarlo.
Malos hábitos! No por nada Instagram te deja incluso esconder los likes (ya sabemos que pasa cuando todos nos concentramos en los numeros)

I always feel bad at the year's end because I didn't read as many books as I challenged myself to.

Then I get messages like these:

And it makes me realize how much I really read and that time doesn't get wasted, it just feels like it because of the particular measurements we focus on.

Happy readings!

The idea that with mass adoption of VR we might open our minds to a different vision of the self. A self not constrained by our bodies. Now that is exciting.

At first I rejected that article cause I was thinking "here comes another guy who tells us we live in a simulation" but no, these guys are actually thinking this deep and straight. What if our self is a mental model? That doesn't discard reality but transforms it. That opens up discussions not relegates everything to nihilism.

These thought experiments make me really excited about mass adoption of VR.
That said... I'm really bummed that right now your only choice for a VR is Meta. (Sorry Valve, the index is too geek for normal people)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/02/are-we-already-living-in-virtual-reality
Are We Already Living in Virtual Reality?

Joshua Rothman reports on virtual-embodiment technology, which is challenging our understanding of who and what we are.

The New Yorker
@caseynewton it was too much power for us pesky humans 😔
@danluu people have a tendency to think risk is considerably lower than it is.
Read once about why The Great Blue Hole in Egypt is so dangerous and it resumes mostly to an incorrect calculation of both ability and risk.
I think it is considerably harder than people think to actually know your limits. Hence why people strain themselves even when doing regular exercise. (And I can vouch that myself)
As much as I'm enjoying Mastodon, one thing I don't like is how much of the conversations here are about Elon and Twitter.
C'mon guys and gals, we can do better that. What's something exciting you are doing this week?
Also how I like my software.
I miss the naive old days when Bill Gates was the worst billionaire we could imagine