Tuesday, May 21

 Woke up around 7:40, then struggled to get up till 8:20. No office today: so much time even if I get up late. Coffee, muffin, then sipping iced tea.

Recovered my setup in the morning. I configure something neatly in the office, then I have to redo it at home. Makes me keep good notes. Good notes are hard to keep, it turns out.

M replied in the morning about AWS SES validation. Says we should not send emails from the root domain, only from a subdomain. And some reasons for that. Not sure about it, but it's noreply@ email anyway, so who cares. I should be fine.

Then I went for a run during lunch. It looked sunny and pleasant outside. 70ºF – how hot is it? Seems borderline hot for running. No, too hot. I cut it at 30 minutes, not finishing 5K. Too hot. 

Listened to the New Yorker podcast; they invited Robert Kennedy, Jr. He can barely speak; his voice is rough and breaking up. He is running for president this year as an independent. They ask why won't he condemn Trump if he disagrees with him; he says cause at the mental support meetings for heroin addicts they tell them not to hate people. He was addicted to heroin for 14 years and still goes to support groups many times per week. And then another Russian podcast about how Putin's propaganda exploits Western democracies' processes to discredit the ideas of democracy in Russia. Presidents elected by minority vote, etc. Putin is supported by the majority and leads the majority, and thus is the best democracy, – in this view. It's the understanding of a majoritarian democracy. Latin America has many of them, that converged to dictatorships by the way of populist rise. Western democracies are liberal democracies – the majority cannot go against individual liberties.

Then I met with Ryan in the afternoon. He was very helpful in my UI adventures. This thing called Redux, a local store from React Native: I had to make a few objects, then define mappings, then loaders and "reducers". Then Ryan said I can figure out the rest. Okay, I surely can. Then Ryan came up with the idea of another screen inside the profile screen. Alright, I'll practice my UI skills.

And then I troubleshoot the margin, and padding, and animation, and I seem to be getting better at it.

I decided to check out Apple News trial. It's not too bad actually. They recommend me stuff about the office. 5-to-9 replaces 9-to-5, they say in WSJ. People get up early at 5 to get to the office early and be ahead of everyone in the day. The boss notes when someone is in the office before anyone else, they say. Ah, what BS jobs people work, whose purpose is to get ahead of anyone in the boss' eye. But it actually did inspire me to come to the office early, maybe by 6 or 7 sometime. Bike at sunrise, then plan out my day and do most of the work before lunch. I will try.