Re Human Day 36

Re-inventing ourselves has always been the most important skill. I’m re-inventing myself by improving in 15 areas at a time. This post is part of my Re Human project.

Daily Habits

Books: I’ve been listening to The Selfish Gene. Some notes from today:

A gene May seem altruistic but it may just be helping other replicas of itself.

Genes obviously don’t calculate decisions mathematically, but they’re “preprogrammed” to do this intuitively.

Caring can only be a stable strategy if it’s a mixed strategy: at least some bearing has to be going on. They can’t just take care of their children and not create new ones.

Writing: This post, code, and a daily thought.

Re Human Extended Activity: Mondays has been Digital Drawing and Painting and VR Artist and Architect. I’ve reflected and decided to re-invent my Mondays with regards to the re human extended activity. One of the areas I feel I’ve seen less progress in is VR Artist and Architect. My hypothesis is that it’s because I’ve only been doing this activity once a week, and that one single day I’ve also combined it with an extra re-human extended activity, so I really don’t spend as much time as when there’s only one re-human extended activity. So I decided I would move my digital drawing and painting on Mondays to Friday, so it’s coupled with Graphic Design — an area I practice twice a week.

VR Artist and Architect

I spend some time in the code then decided to reflect and think broadly.

I actually went to my iPad to sketch how I want things to look (ended up digitally drawing a bit after all).

First drew what I was working with.

Then drew an “easy” but better extension.

The idea with the second iteration was that I think it would be cool to have different hallways for different topics/genres — and that selecting whether to group by “topic” or by “genre” or by “recommended value” would change, re-organize, and re-generate each hallway. I also thought it would be better to have the corridor to change hallways at one end instead of in the middle. Because that way the hallways themselves could also have a “sort” (probably by recommended value, so best books according to a topic show first) — or maybe a “path” for books (like read these books first, then continue with these ones). So starting in the middle seemed awkward for that.

In the third sketch I just went ahead and treated lines as hallways.

The main idea in the third sketch was that I could use the vertical dimension to convey more information, like “recommended value”. So “better” books would be higher. I also imagined someone walking through the aisles and realized that it would be much better if there was another connecting hallway at the other end of the main hallways, so when they’re done walking a hallway, they can easily go to the next one and not walk all the way they came from.

Then I brainstormed what characteristics make a “VR” medium special, and what features I can build with them. This is how my brainstorming looked (untouched):

• 3 Dimensions
• Interaction
• Computing / Rearrangement
• Immersive
• State/ Store. People “shop”/save. People can make a list as they go and export the list at the end.
• Relatedness — (related books)?
• “paths” for books (read these books first, then continue with these ones)
• Box where people can drop in a recommendation. Search goodreads/amazon. Or just simple text.
• Expansion to see my notes on the book. / other metadata/ maybe a summary / link to the book
• MUSIC. Changes depending on the hallway. → playlist for each hallway.
• different “hallway views” when grouping by topics, genre, recommended value
• grand “overall view” — circle → actually HELIX, sorted by the time I read.

Fitness: Today I worked out with my friend Cliff. Always a great workout with him :). Also practiced my handstands and human flag.

Meditation: 20mins in the morning.

Piano: Today I practiced piano in the morning — something I hadn’t done before! Liked it. Today I got to the “final section” of La La Land’s Sebastian and Mia’s theme. Still have to practice the final section way more, and then combine all sections, and then be able to play the whole song without looking at notes/Flowkey.

Soccer trick juggling: Got several around the worlds, but no two in a row.

Connections, takeaways and Ideas for tomorrow

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” — Oscar Wilde

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