This is me

I used to tell myself stories as a kid.

I am old enough to have had a childhood without a phone or cable TV - being born in Eastern Europe helped - so I had those long periods of silence when I would just daydream myself some faraway rich place with damn nice clothes.
I remember a certain precision to those stories. I knew I wanted to be rich, but I also knew exactly how much money I needed to buy a house, a car (red corvette), an exact number of dresses / shoes / handbags, etc.

Becoming a programmer did not make me rich or cure me of OCD. I had a corvette (blue) briefly, but I never passed a driving test. I also stopped telling myself stories and writing.

Couple years ago I realized that programming is not all in terms of creativity, so I started crocheting amigurumis and knitting sweaters.

Now, as a tech lead, I find myself doing less and less programming. I attend too many meetings. I review too many RFCs. And what I miss the most is the learning. The discovery. Writing things down. Telling myself stories. Not always about programming. Not even always about science stuff. What I learned could be intangible and this blog is an attempt to capture it.