A conversation with Alejandro Piad Morffis about education

Optimizing the right target variables

Tivadar Danka

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Alejandro Piad Morffis

Nov 23, 2023

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Hi there,

The Palindrome is back in business! I’ve spent the last (almost) two months developing a small little application called Lilla, whose primary purpose was to cure my imminent burnout.

(And also to learn web development from scratch. I picked up JavaScript for the first time around October 1st, and I’ve built and deployed a full product. This was quite a ride.)

My creative energies are full, and you can expect the usual weekly post from The Palindrome. (For the premium subs out there: your billing cycle will continue on December 1st.)

The first project is going to be a collaboration with

Alejandro Piad Morffis

, one of my favorite technical writers online. Many of you know him; if you don’t, he’s the mind behind Mostly Harmless Ideas and the The Tech Writers Stack. (Both of which I recommend.)

Before our idea-focused introductory series on graph theory, Alejandro and I had a lengthy conversation about the stat…

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A guest post by

Alejandro Piad Morffis

Democratizing knowledge one post at a time. I talk about Computer Science, AI, Education, Philosophy, you know, mostly harmless stuff. Building a community of tech writers on Substack. And now also venturing into creative writing.