I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently.
Laura Barton, Life and style, The Guardian, 30 March 2008 source ↗
The question
What inspires you to learn?Originally asked
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I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently.
Laura Barton, Life and style, The Guardian, 30 March 2008 source ↗
I love being bad at something and getting better at it.
Science is about curiosity-driven learning, and unless you are curious, you will never find science exciting.
I’m reading an odd collection of books that should not go together, but of course they do. Georgina Kleege: What Blindness Brings To Art; Fred Moten: Black and Blur; Theri Pickens: Black Madness :: Mad Blackness.
I wish I knew more about Clojure, which is the programming language we use most at Nubank. If I did, I could better understand some of the more complex problems we're trying to solve, and I think I could ask better questions when we're setting priorities. I'd like to be able to communicate at that level with the technical side of our team, and I think they would appreciate it, too.
Frogs and public speaking.
I'm scared of the dark.
Chanel 2.55 handbag at Heathrow airport during a hangover.
I don't want to look sexy in photographs. I think it's an easy option. I'm so sick of girls pushing their boobs up in Myspace photographs. I hate the way women want to be "hot" all the time.
Like there's nothing you can do about it.
A walk-in wardrobe!
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