Mark Dobson

Software engineering, nutrition, and family.

I build software applications to solve complex problems. This site keeps the old pages and copy, in a new look, plus a reels page.

About

Family, work, and the long project of building complete software systems.

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Health and food

Notes on cholesterol, sugar, keto-adaptation, and what I was cooking.

Health · Food

Reels

Social clips I like, with the headings I wrote, as they are for now.

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Quotes I like

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”Mahatma Gandhi
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”Henry Ford
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”Stephen Hawking
“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, now that is true knowledge.”Copernicus
“As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.”Einstein
“The only thing I know, is that I know nothing.”Socrates
“The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.”George Bernard Shaw
“Why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I am going to hell.”Homer Simpson
“Any person capable of angering you, becomes your master.”Epictetus

TED: Mark Pagel — How Language Transformed Humanity