Hi! My name is Mauricio Leventer, and I've been a consultant and software developer possibly since before you were born.

I'm passionate about technologies that
→ make people's lives and businesses easier and better through facilitation and rational use of resources;
→ promote welfare through the advancement of science;
→ assure democratization of all information and knowledge available with full and free access to education and culture; and
→ help promote freedom and peace.

And here is the place where I write random things that I like and want to share.


Yes, I'm an Open Access advocate

I strongly believe that knowledge is a public good, and as such, it should be freely available to everyone without any costs, barriers or restrictions.

?וואס איז דאס → What's that?

[] Open access is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined, or libre open access, barriers to copying or reuse are also reduced or removed by applying an open license for copyright.



Then I became an accidental documentarian

Documentation that is nice-looking, technically correct and useless is everywhere.

After so many years working with technology and consuming technical documentation for breakfast, I've seen experts, technicians, managers, and users failing when trying to gather specialized information from poorly written documentation created by non-technical writers. What a waste of precious time digesting technical crap and trying to make sense about non-obvious things! A not so good experience, to say the least. That's why many developers like myself often prefer to check the source-code instead of trying to get help from the available help. It's usually better and funnier! Since I wasn't happy with the status-quo of bad documentation I decided to do something about and started with some technical writing. Technical documentation is not just the domain of specialized technical writers; it's an integral and often critical component of many professional roles across diverse industries. From the initial conceptualization of a product or service to its development, deployment, and ongoing maintenance, various professionals rely on and contribute to technical documentation. Technical documentation is the backbone of information exchange in any technical environment, enabling collaboration, fostering understanding, and driving successful outcomes across a wide spectrum of professions.


Why do I love technology?

For thousands of years the Jewish people pursued a dream — the coming of Moshiach (Messiah), a Jewish King, leader, savior, and redeemer of the world from chaos. The One who will lead the Jewish people back to the Land of Israel and put order and peace in our crazy world.

The resurrection of the dead will also happen after the coming of Moshiach — every Jewish soul that ever lived will be resurrected. Very cooool! Right?

The author of the Zohar, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, predicted a revolution of science and technology in the future that will be the preparation for the messianic era (right now). An important part of this preparation is spreading Torah, G-d's wisdom, all over the world, making it accessible to anyone interested in be a better Jew. Baruch Hashem we are already living it.

Technologies developed in the past years by men with the help and inspiration of the Almighty G-d, blessed be He, such as press, radio, television, satellite, internet, smart phones, electric cars, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and many others, alongside with good technical writing are the enablers for the coming of Moshiach. However, it depends on our actions and behaviors to get awareness and knowledge from G-d's knowledge in order to expedite this process. Moshiach now!

Moshiach is ready to come now, we all must only do something additional in the realm of goodness and kindness. Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Z"L



Image credit: Matthew Angus (Unsplash)

עם ישראל חי → Am Yisrael Chai → 'The people of Israel live'

The land of the Jewish people is Israel, a beautiful and blessed land undoubtedly given directly by the Almighty G-d Himself to Abraham and his descendants — we the Jewish People — as an eternal possession. A land of high-technology for obvious reasons! First and foremost — the coming of Moshiach. Oh, sorry. I forgot to tell you that I'm a proud Jew! So, I'm grateful to Hashem for each and every thing I could do to help others and to make this world a better place to live for everyone.


Why this blog doesn't look like a blog?

First, it's not a regular blog. It's just my personal playground.
Second, I do not make any profit on it. I'm just trying to accomplish something different here. My aim is to freely and openly disseminate information that I like and find useful.
Finally, I'm not concerned about aesthetics; just clarity, accuracy, conciseness, coherence, and appropriateness, necessary for effective communication and the coming of Moshiach speedly in our days, Amen. That's why many of the posts will contain only a couple of bulleted lists and very short sentences. You know, these lists may save you precious time by breaking up complex statements and allowing you to see specific key points or concepts. I didn't invented it. It's something known as "listicle".


[] In journalism and blogging, a listicle is a short-form of writing that uses a list as its thematic structure, but is fleshed out with sufficient copy to be published as an article.



And I decided that the contents — text, images, charts, and the majority of illustrations will be very simple, simple-colored or even black-and-white. Obviously you may see some distractions oftentimes as well, but they are just distractions. By the way, this is me eating a small size Kosher pizza.


Who should read this blog?

Everyone including myself and other people interested in: knowledge management, open access, open innovation, open source, technical documentation writing, software technologies, and some serious Jewish stuff.


Thank you and enjoy the reading.

Mauricio Leventer