About me
My name is Héctor Morales, I’m originally from Monterrey, Mexico and, at the time of writing this, I’m 23 years old.
Professionally, I’m a software engineer dedicated to helping both individuals and organizations in materializing their vision through technology. I’m confident that as the content of this blog grows, it’ll become fairly evident that I have a passion for science and technology
The rest of my time I divide indiscriminitely among the following aspects of life:
- Art: drawing, water color painting and, more recently, oil painting.
- Literature: confirmed bibliofile (hard cover please), frustrated novelist.
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Philosophy: technically (I’ll be using this word ad nauseum in my blog) a subset of literature, but my love for knowledge merits the distinction. If I had to stick to a single philosophical movement, it’d be Existentialism.
- Miscellaneous:
- Cinephile: I can quote any good movie I’ve seen, and I’ve seen plenty.
- General Knowledge: I’m driven by curiosity, which has led me to collect an offensive amount of (mostly useless) knowledge that I can regurgitate without the slightest provocation (approach me at social events at your own peril).
Having said all this, you may be thinking: “Jack of all trades, master of none”. You’d be right. Although my knowledge and experience in these subjects is not at all negligible, I am not, nor do I consider myself to be an expert in any of them. I hope it’s clear that this is a blog based on opinions, reflection and introspection, not a repositroy of academic papers, although my writing style may sometimes suggest the opposite.
About the blog
Why Technical Boy?
Having made it clear that I am a renaissance man, at least in my own, arrogant eyes, I would now like to focus on the matter of this blog. I’ll start with the name.
The Technical Boy is a character in one of my favorite novels: Neil Gaiman’s American Gods (author of other popular titles such as Coraline, the graphic novel series The Sandman, and a beautiful anthology of norse myths called, rather aptly, Norse Mythology). In American Gods, the Technical Boy is one of the New Gods, specifically and as his name suggests, the god of technology.
Although the Technical Boy, or Tech Boy as some people call him, takes an antagonistic role in the novel, I chose the name because to me it represents two exciting oportunities. The first and more obvious of the two is the opportunity to combine a reference from one of my favorite novels with one of my greatest passions. After all, what kind of programmer would I be if I didn’t consider myself to be a technological god? The second and perhaps the one that justifies the blog’s name the most is the fact that I am an insufferable technicalist, which Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary defines as “one addicted to technicalities”.
In other words, I’m the kind of person who focuses more on “how” a particular thought or idea is expressed than whether or not the intended message was communicated. Some people consider this to be a rather annoying trait, but then again, what kind of writer would I be if I didn’t relentlessly point out when people say one thing when they really meant another?
What the blog is about
This will be a blog about life in the broadest of definitions. I’ll write about literature, philosophy, science, culture, business, technology, art, movies, love, politics and whatever I, in my introspection, find relevant, in whatever combination I find entertaining and in the extent that my attention deficit allows. Since this blog is introspective in nature, I refuse to provide bibliographic references or academic citations for every argument I present. If there’s ever any doubt, it would be pretty safe to assume [a huge technicality over the word “asumir” came up in the spanish version, which somehow also led me to explain the difference between the english “billion” and the spanish “billón” (Google it), but the main argument doesn’t translate, so either learn spanish and read the spanish version of this post or just accept that you missed a great lesson that doesn’t apply to English speakers anyway] that the reference is me and that’s all the intellectual authority I need.
Although it is possible that I don’t go into one or some of these topics, I’d rather not limit the scope of this blog. This is because that would restrict my freedom, which seems too much like an oxymoron for me to be comfortable with, and that’s not something that either you or I want. Sometimes I’ll write about whatever the hell I want. Sometimes I’ll take suggestions into account (my email, twitter @technicalboy__ and the comment section below each blog post are at your disposition). What I can commit to is to always write genuinely, from my cinical and sometimes, only sometimes, cheesy heart.
I’ll leave you with a small hint, provided in this case through a Kierkegaardian aphorism, of what you’ll be getting from this blog.
What philosophers say about reality is often as deceiving as when you see a sign in a second hand store that reads: “Pressing done here”. If you brought your clothes in the next day to have them pressed, you would be deceived; the sign is for sale.
– Diapsalmata, Søren Kierkegaard
Did you understand what I, and incidentally, Kierkgaard meant? Leave your interpretation in a comment or write me a tweet @technicalboy__ or an e-mail.
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