05 / BEYOND WORK
Personal interests
Pietro, also known as PC or PeterC. Maxermast on Steam.
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
Richard P. Feynman
“Wonder is anywhere, if you are curious enough to discover it.”
Personal motto
Running
Regular running and time outdoors.
Anime & videogames
Watching anime, playing videogames, and discussing both. Favourite anime: special — Neon Genesis Evangelion; best overall — Sōsō no Frieren.
Learning 日本語
Learning to read, write, and speak Japanese.
Reading
Science, philosophy, and a bit of fiction. Evolutionary biology is a favourite topic. Some favourite books: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Chance and Necessity by Jacques Monod, Solaris by Stanisław Lem, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, Blindness by José Saramago, The Art of Statistics by David Spiegelhalter, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, and Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond.
Hardware & Linux
PC hardware, Linux, and other computing interests.
Building things
Computer graphics, ray tracing, and small software tools.
“Give me a task and I will come up with a software to automate it.”
Coding motto