garden/journal/2023-03-03.md

• Day off, making this a long weekend and travelling to München to meet friends and disconnect a bit!
  • And by disconnect I mean maybe be more offline, although maybe also I will end up writing in the Agora and that's completely OK.
  • I'm currently on the train to Munich, looking a bit like a zombie (bags under my eyes) and feeling a bit sleeping, but happy. Through the window I can see the fields of Jura.
• Flancia
  • Agora
    • open letters
  • Buddhism
    • I continued reading about the Tripitaka.
    • TIL Faxian started his journey on foot from China to India when he was 60.
• Myanmar
  • I remembered we considered going to Myanmar back when we were in Thailand (2016?) and would still love to go some day.
• #push Category Theory
  • Continuing reading A Rosetta Stone: https://via.hypothes.is/https://arxiv.org/pdf/0903.0340.pdf
    • After 1.5y (!) -- time flies indeed.
    • Re-read cobordism as it keeps being hard to grasp :) I think I need to review more examples of the cobordism category?
      • It's striking that one of the canonical representations of a cobordism looks like a pipe forking. Yesterday night I was reading/writing about flow networks.
    • Is category theory the study of change?

    • "A general science of systems and processes"

I will write Building Bridges -- some day? What does it mean by now? I've thought about it many times, and by now I wonder if when I actually start writing it it will just flow out from me -- or it won't.