Gathering thoughts…
A world of little thoughts.
A lot of people likes to use the above graph and article to show how hard drive continue to fall. If you Zoom out over long enough period of course if will look fine. But if we look from 2013, where HDD price was slightly bumped up due to Thailand flooding, we saw price /GB went from $0.04 to $0.015 in 10 years time.…
I don't hate my job, but I don't love it. I've been running away all these years, jumping from one job to another and then hating myself. All because I don't have the courage nor the discipline to chase my dreams. Chasing your dreams isn't a luxury, it's hard work and requires a lot of determination. I am ready to…
I would have never discovered wonders of a co-working space, had I not started on my own. The hunt for my own office space made me look for options beyond traditional spaces. The real estate in Mumbai is so expensive that anyone with limited finance has no choice but to be imaginative. The pictures of spaces, within…
Came across a captivating question recently by Nicheless founder Louis on his post "12 questions that captivate me". Can a society with diverse, conflicting values survive? I believe only a society with diverse and conflicting values can survive. Humans follow their desires to pretty much any extreme. If a particular…
Know what others have that you don’t have. Don’t focus on what they don’t have. Focus on what will benefit you I want you to - Take accountability of things you didn’t DO Rather than trying to delay using time To do it NOW And not doing it - that’s the difference between success and stagnant Doesn’t matter if you…
it's haunting the extent to which i have gone quiet. last night i opened my instagram after a long time. it's purely an exhibitionist platform, but that aside i've some threads in there. most of them begin to grow quiet around 2018, gradually deafening in 2019 and coming to complete silence in 2020 - when i quit. i've…
What do you when you are feeling bad? Does the whole day need to be bad? Think of things that make you happy. Do a favorite activity. Help someone. Go outside. These are great solutions. They all came from the participants in a Tae Kwon Do class. I was proud that the first solution came from my five-year-old…
I looked at her, her head on my shoulders, hand in hand. No dear reader, we aren’t a couple. I was lucky, but not lucky enough. We operate in the greys. There’s a space between friendship and love — an unspoken pact between a man and a women. A line in sand that you cannot cross. All it takes is one wave. Beautiful…
I completed a 2-day "ultra-marathon-type" race this weekend where you run 48 miles over the course of 48 hours. It was grueling and I enjoyed the challenge. I have run a regular marathon and done other various physical challenges, always trying to maintain some novelty and keep myself interested. In the final hours of…
We don't really know what is actually happening in others peoples lives, lying is so easy, specially when people are far away, you could just not say where or what you are doing and easily fool others. Today, I discovered I was lied to and it just makes me feel uneasy about the other person, kinda lost trust, even if…
i think sheila heti is actually somewhat mainstream despite being indie in style but tao lin is still fully indie despite being published in Vice just because like i think sheila heti is spreading a mainstream message [in a groundbreaking way] but tao lin is spreading a somewhat indie message ["somewhat" meaning a…
ahh my imagination has been sparked by a utopian concept by Superstudio. 'The Third City: New York of Brains' is a concept where a cube houses 10,000456 living brains so they can survive humanity's destruction. however i imagine what if humanity is never destroyed? we will be able to go visit this place, it would be…
Im normally used to have a routine that is very stable, not much going on, but this past 2 weeks have been very intense for me, from events, meeting people, moving and figuring out this this country I have been picking up very bad habits cause I have so many things I want and need to fit in my schedule. Now I realize…
I'm kind of tired seeing people sharing unsolicited advice about growth, productivity, finance - all of these things that supposedly make you successful. My definition of "success" is so different from those in my surroundings now, but... it feels so strange to leave so fast when this is all I've known, too. But I…
The old time view for businesses was that they existed simply to make money and that social impact needn't be a consideration. This 1962 definition makes it absolutely clear- “one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits, so long as…
“Keep it simple stupid” - Skunk 🦨 Works Lockheed Martin My favourite quote, and something I try to live by
Isn't it odd that two words from two different languages sound nearly the same? Does anyone else wonder about the twists and turns in the history of our world that led to such coincidences?
Lately, I’ve been thinking: home is not a place, a country, or any physical location. Home is a feeling you get around people, people who always welcome you with a warm hug every time you see them and give you a tight hug every time you leave. While some people identify with their country or hometown, I identify with…
I’m a big advocate of making the most out of the cards you’re dealt. Take what you have in the current moment and start fixing things. Slowly but surely, and within a reasonable timeframe, you’ll get what you want — or at least you’ll be 2X or 10X better than when you first started. Even if don't get what you want, or…
A good quote seen today: “You can’t go back and change the past But you can start today and change the ending” You’re kind, But just not daring and brave enough You could be more achievable If you’re more daring to think through Not stuck into some thoughts by thinking: I don’t think you can
One of my summer experiments as a child included learning to bake and assemble an ice cream cake. Bombay's summer heat, even in the 1980s was oppressive enough, that I was always experimenting with ''cooling'' recipes! My maternal Uncle, Bunny Mama, as we fondly called him, would indulge me with my kitchen…
Jensen said it is the AI of iPhone era. I was a little bit sceptical at first. Now I think it is true, may be for slightly different reason than Jensen's. We continue to see LLM / Generative AI improvement every single weeks or months. And most expect we have at least another 5 years of these improvements. While we…
When we feel displeased with someone, we make every effort to stop any interaction with them. It is liberating to see the difference it makes. In fact, once we have managed to master this detachment, we tend to feel bouts of motivation. The real tragedy is when something that causes us great pain is nothing alien but…
I reached for a jar on a shelf and this happened. Lots of things are breaking down around me, and now I see what God is doing. His pattern is to break things before he builds them into something newer + better. That’s exactly what’s happening in my life right now. Things are breaking down left and right, because he…
Starting a company feels like creating a conspiracy against the world. Few people understand why you're doing it. Many question your decision making. Some feel their own values being challenged. My cofounder has mentioned that "time is the enemy" -- that we need to get our product launched faster and get to revenue…
Because you don’t take everything personal Maturity tells you when it’s about the world not about you If someone is behaving like disrespecting you Find a way to make them know it’s their fault first Stand your own fucking ground Understand it’s not you it’s them You’ve matured First you already control your emotions…
Recently I have been hesitant to write my thoughts here too frequently. The reason is that I try to avoid repeating myself and strive to write something of value. There has been many things occupying my mind recently, so I will try to keep sharing them here for this outlet has a unique charm...
Anything you could achieve can be seen when you’re young When your SOLE and ONLY purpose is the grades inside your REPORT CARD When the only thing you’ve wanted is really just to get good grades And you didn’t work hard & you knew you didn’t study that much And you got bad grades with Cheehou (that was the dream…
- tao lin + andy warhol + terence mckenna as Worshipped Rebel Gods - harnessing a type of energy - my fav podcast [i laughed on the bus] - people who give me the feeling of "mm i like that" when they talk about their lives - funneling the energies i like into my life honestly energy is a thing you can touch and see it…
Is it alright to have sad feelings if they seem cliché? Is it okay to struggle with the same simple universal problems over and over for decades? I learn new facts every day but I won't learn anything about myself until I'm terrified of dying and fading away forever.
Sim, ainda estou em Belo Horizonte. Hoje fui comer a famosa rosca com queijo canastra, açúcar e canela lá no mercado central acompanhada de um cafezinho preto maroto. Que delícia ein! Minas gerais não decepciona em nada na comida. Em nada. Do café da manhã ao jantar, tudo impecável! Do incrível Café Palhares, onde…
Há tempos eu não sentava a bunda para escrever por 8 horas seguidas. Estou exausta, mas gostei do resultado. Eu queria saber qual é o tempo que levo para escrever a minha newsletter Espiral. A conclusão é que, caso eu queira produzi-la primorosamente, gastarei ao menos 2 dias inteiros escrevendo e condensando nela…
Ever heard that saying? Course you have. Ever seen something genuinely new despite spending every day of your life on the internet seeing things that are little reworkings of things that have been done before? Sometimes yeah. This car thing is new to me. Look at it go!…
Last week I went down a YouTube rabbithole of credit card optimization. I watched loads of videos of extremely smart people showing off how they maximized their credit card reward rates. Not just smart people – rich smart people. Folks whose time is money. Somehow, each of them determined that spending hours of their…
When I was a child I had what you would call a active imagination, I spent a lot of time alone, and this is how I would fill that loneliness. By creating scenarios and artificial worlds in my mind. I would invent friends and imagine myself in times long ago, or far in the future. Throughout my school years, I was not…
I've been reading "A More Beautiful Question" by Warren Berger in which Berger, while exploring how to frame questions in an effort to innovate and implement new ideas, shares an exercise about starting the exploration of an idea by simply asking questions and turning those questions on their heads. I've been thinking…
The golden sun dissolves into the forest which now looks like a painting. Warm wind kisses the cheek and tingles with her open hair. I lie down on the soft green grass with my friends. we listen to machine-made music from Britain. The air is crowded from the smoke of Davidoff. The mountains somehow resemble the folds…
i noticed that sometimes i am prone to self-deluding untruths. i have observed primarily two types of lies: (1) "i will do xyz" and i do not end up doing xyz (and this task has nothing to do with difficulty of achievement; if i wanted to do it, i would've done it. it is always something trivial) (2) "i am so excited…
Here I plant my flag, in words three hundred, Each word is precious, they're exactly numbered; Of course, we could do like the ancient Greeks And write without the spaces -- we'd be freaks! But -- problem solved! We'd have limits no more. The host would think that I'm a writing drunkard -- In which case I'd certainly…
It's very popular out there the notion of building a habit by taking the activity in question on practice it every day for a certain number of days. It's embedded in many popular apps like Duolingo or Strava. I think it got popularized by the habit building experts out there and also due to the Seinfeld strategy. You…
i've never felt there was a stronger case for being selfish. in a good way. like, for the first time, the demand side of the internet has outpaced the supply side. like it finally makes sense to just... be. and maybe that seems oddly specific, or convenient. a reason to realize what has always been true. or maybe it's…
I don't know how I discovered the band Canyon City. But Spotify has kept serving up songs by them to me since then and I have become a fan. There is something soothing and gentle about the style of their songs that is instantly recognizable to me. Some lyrics from the song Run by them Now all the lights they turn and…
Journaling daily is required to build a habit. I’ve heard others say: I don’t have anything to journal about. My day was great, what do I write now? There are no set rules for what you should write or how much you should write. You'll have more to write if you use a balanced approach. I write the same words I would…
Don’t hate the bus, or the bus app Hate the fact that you don’t have enough money to get a car. Use the mean time to think and do efficient tasks. There’s no help in being negative thinking. Also be smart - know how to learn and find knowledge. Acquire good knowledge. Who to ask. What to know & have that think for…
I certainly don’t expect everyone to like /Lolita/ So what’s the matter with me not liking others that many like? I suppose I just want to know what there is to like! So what do I like about Nabokov? He has big dick energy, that’s the first thing. And he’s funny about it. And he creeps me out in the right ways. It’s a…
I never cease to wonder which part of us summons ourselves from the great and long distance of eternity, swim through the foggy, thick, kaleidoscope of our dreams only to wake up and wonder about what we're all doing here. Each night, before bed, my 7yo prepares for her nighttime journeys by choosing from among her…
Every now and then I try some podcasts, the ones you find in the homepage of spotify. And I hate them, they're impossible to listen to. I don't know, maybe at speaker school they teach to speak that way, but it is too much. Too much energy, artificial happiness, the necessity to make everything as lightweight as…
Childhood As a child, my weekends meant catching up with friends, enjoying a little extra TV time, or excitedly heading to the supermarket or the movies. For better or worse, my parents didn't push me into extra classes, whether for studies or homework. So, if I didn't have anything to do, I would simply hang out.…
