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Well, hello. I decided to dig out this place (set up for other reasons before dropping Twitter etc etc) and turn it into a map that collects my interests, thoughts and ideas, and - why not - achievements big and small, mostly for my own consumption. Inspired by - Twitter and Instagram boredom; - The need to gather the things I am proud about, in a way that encompasses my interests; - The realisation that in every social network people become a "fortune cookie" version of themselves, and you never get to really know them; - A recent post I read about digital gardens, and obviously I can't find it any more but I guess  this  is a good reference, even though "digital garden" is not a concept I really buy into; - Having understood the key difference between informational Stock and Flow in some other blog page I can't find any more sorry; I decided to dig out this place (set up for other reasons before dropping Twitter etc etc) and turn it into a map that collect...

My considerations about staying at the hospital when caring for someone, which happened to me four times in the past years, in three different hospitals in Southern England. It is a mish-mash of thoughts on how to get through a hospital stay a bit more easily: please feel free to call bullshit on them, especially if you are a doctor or anyone that actually *knows* something about it. An unfamiliar place. Despite being exclusively devoted to extend people's lifespan, a modern hospital is one of the most unwelcoming places you will ever visit. Ugly blocky buildings surrounded by full-to-the-brim parking lots. Often shabby. Dull. Unwelcoming. Sprawling and hard to navigate, littered with confusing signs pointing all over the place. Still here culminate centuries of human knowledge, first clumsily gathered by trial and error, now developing at marvellous speed thanks to the scientific method. I cannot stop seeing hospital as temples devoted to the noblest of endeavours: mak...