I remember those days when a childhood friend and I, in the mid-nineties, were writing a computer adventure game for the ZX Spectrum.

The development environment was a notebook and a pen. We drew levels on paper, first drew sprites in a squared notebook, and then entered them into the …

I’m reading biographies of scientists. For example, Galileo Galilei — a physicist, mechanic, astronomer, philosopher, and mathematician. Or Leonardo — an artist (painter, sculptor, architect) and scientist (anatomist, mathematician, physicist, naturalist). Or Isaac Newton — a physicist, mathematician, and astronomer. The list goes on. It turns out that these and many other …