Made in Cosmos

What kind of a world do I want my daughter to grow up in?

When you have kids, you can’t help but ask yourself this question. Whatever happens right now in her life is going to be her baseline of normal. What do I want her to experience growing up? How do I want her to relate to her home, neighborhood, nature and other people?

It’s easy to list all the things that bother me about how the society or education system are currently organized. It’s way harder to suggest a better alternative. But the only way to create a better future is to imagine it first, so here’s my best attempt at describing what I’d ideally want to happen in the next 5-10 years.

You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, “How did he do it? He must be a genius!” –Richard Feynman

White empty space. A vast white field covered in snow, with a white cloudy sky above, and white fog covering trees in the distance. You’re sitting there alone wearing nothing but flip flops, soaking in the silence. Freezing wind touches your skin. Time and the world don’t exist. * * * For the last few […]