2019-12-26: scraped off some of the likely soap scum from standing bathtub with hard plastic rice cooker spoon.

ARTISAN 2-SLOT TOASTER 5KMT2204 Onyx Black

Bought: 2017-09

Impossible to open to properly clean.

Similar to: www.miele.co.uk/e/cylinder-vacuum-cleaner-compact-c2-powerline-sdrf4-10931670-p but slightly different from image. Indistinguishable from: www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/home-appliances/floorcare/vacuum-cleaners/miele-complete-c2-pure-power-powerline-cylinder-vacuum-cleaner-graphite-grey-10208570-pdt.html

Power symbol meanings: images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/A14OZ5TuwGS.pdf

2020-12: buying Miele SF AP 50 AirClean Plus filter www.miele.co.uk/e/airclean-plus-filter-sf-ap-50-10107860-p. Once it arrived, changed the filter, which fit comes with plastic casing and accordion shaped filter. Also changed bag. But the bag full meter still goes to red on carpet even with everything new while vacuuming. Is it supposed to be checked while not vacuuming?

Likely came in a bundle: www.gak.co.uk/en/yamaha-p45-digital-piano-bundle/908294

Bought: 2022.

To remove pedals when they get stiff.

Future self, answer these.

10 years:

20 years

40 years:

In 2020 Brazil for example, you are not allowed in theory to obtain a double nationality which you were not allowed to have as a birth right.

This means that Brazilian students e.g. in France, many of whom could easily obtain the French citizenship had to either chose between:Can you guess which option Brazilian students would usually pick?

As a poor country, you have to allow people to obtain multiple citizenship. Students are not going to go back because they don't have the foreign citizenship. They are just going to have to ensure shittier jobs for a few years, thus diminishing the chances that they will actually lean anything useful to bring back to your country later on.

You have to bring students back after they're masters with the carrot, and not with the stick.

The thing about projects is that they are illiquid: it is not easy to immediately compare them.

And that is the whole point.

The outcome of that however is that you have to learn how to explain what you've achieved to others and why it is awesome.

Just like in the real world.

You have to create portfolio, and do some public relations.

The projects you do must always aim to achieving some novel result.

You don't have to necessarily reach it. But you must aim for it.

Novel result can be taken broadly.

E.g., a new tutorial that explains something in a way never done before is novel.

But there must be something to your project that has never been done before.

You can start by reproducing other's work.

See: Section "Exam".

The only thing that matters is that students aim towards the goals described at explain how to make money with the lesson.

Any "homework for which the student cannot use existing resources available online" is a waste of time.

The ideal way to go about it is to reach some intermediate milestone, and then document it. You don't have to do the hole thing! Just go until your patience with it runs out. But while you are doing it, go as deep and wide as you possibly can, without mercy.

This is actually how Ciro Santilli learns new subjects he is curious about, even as an adult! Some examples:

Members of the orthogonal group.

When you do get face to face time with students, don't teach a large group.

Everything you want to teach is already online.

And if it is not, then you are wasting your time saying it face-to-face instead of creating such online resource.

The only goal of meeting students is talking to them individually or in small groups to:

and letting them do the same amongst themselves.

If you talk to a large group, you will only reach / understand a very small percentage of the group, so your time is wasted.

It is better to deeply understand what 25% of the students feel and adapt the course material, than to talk to everyone at once, and have only 5% understand anything.

For example, if you write LaTeX files for you PDFs, give both PDFs and the LaTeX.

This allows other people to:

This section contains the a list of cool things Ciro Santilli has been up to in chronological order, including small quick ones. Many/most of those are also posted on Ciro Santilli's accounts controlled by Ciro Santillis such as:

For a more theme-oriented version of the best results see: Section "The best articles by Ciro Santilli".

For OurBigBook Project updates see: docs.ourbigbook.com/news

This is mostly stuff from before 2016 when Ciro was anxious to document his contributions to get a job.

Most of the projects here are also minor contributions, or Ciro later noticed that the projects were not useful enough to work on and that he was actually wasting his time.

Don't like this very much, but if it's the only way...

Maybe focus on job ads like Stack Overflow.

Then:

If enough people use it, we could let people sell knowledge content through us.

Teachers have the incentive of making open source to get more students.

Students pay when they want help to learn something.

We take a cut of the transactions.

However this goes a bit against our "open content" ideal.

Forced sponsorware would be a possibility.

Would be a bit like Fiverr. Hmmm, maybe this is not a good thing ;-)