:e a-sad-email.md I opened MacVim to tell a personal story. The year was 1998, I was 15. I told my dad I wanted to go to a certification program. It’s something familiar in Brazil; you have high school courses and earn a certificate in parallel. I was inclined to study Chemistry (I really enjoyed the subject back then), but someone had suggested Informatics, and it looked promising. One problem: I didn’t have a computer and had no money to buy one.

The iPad is a useful tool. I have two, the ginormous 12.9” iPad Pro and an iPad mini, and I enjoy both. Each has its use case. The Pro is used for consuming videos, photo editing, reading photography magazines and books, writing, and other activities that benefit from a large screen and, sometimes, a calibrated screen, such as when you enable the reference mode in settings. The mini is used for quick consumption here and there.

A friend of mine shared with me two talks on different processes leading to creativity. A 2016 TEDx talk by futurist Stephan Schwartz and a 2019 TED talk by author Tim Harford. While Stephan Schwartz presents a process divided into six steps to induce creativity, Tim Harford shows a different method, much more diverse in approach. Comparing both processes, they seem conflicting; however, when analysing more closely, they complement each other.