Gathering thoughts…
A world of little thoughts.
When you handle multiple companies and you are the only common thread amongst those companies, it becomes very challenging to prioritize the work. Everyone's urgency becomes your emergency. Sorting the tasks and compartmentalizing the requests are two very important skills that come in handy. However, it is very hard…
A great bath feels like a tonic. Two baths in a day, and I bet you will complain about life a little less. Have you also noticed how your mind suddenly calms down near a water body? Listening to the ripples of river water or the rhythmic crashing of sea waves brings a sense of tranquility to our ever-racing minds. I…
Ontem, em uma aula do mestrado, me senti burra. Burra, pura e simplesmente. A professora passou um texto do Latour e eu li, reli, traduzi, li de novo e nada. As palavras cairam em um vazio e foram quicando. O tec tec tec pareciam mais interessante do que a próxima frase. Na aula, a professora pouco explicou. Ela fez…
Olhando para fotos antigas, fotos essas que nunca soube da existência, também me peguei olhando para sentimentos que outrora não sabia do gosto. É curioso como são tortuosas as linhas que transportam sangue do coração para o cérebro, um caminho tão curto, mas ainda sim de diferenças metafóricas enormes. ♫ so baby,…
All what we did was based on subconscious…? -B Consciousness is just a self-explanation to our actions/behaviour? Doesn’t mean that your fate is set - whatever experiences you faced is the subconscious that decides on what you’re already taken And your conscious mind is the aftereffects Humans have emotions and that…
Photo above: Library/Conference/lunch room circa 2000. L to R Siddharth Wahi, Abhishek Saxena, Hardip Wirk, self, Saket Shukla. There's been an overwhelming, heartwarming response to yesterday's post. Many thanks. There have also been a lot of follow up questions. Here are a few answers: No, I'm not going to disclose…
Uma das minhas metas de ano novo é voltar a escrever. Simples assim. Sem nenhuma frequência específica, com tema livre. Apenas com o objetivo de exercitar a mente, organizar os pensamentos e ter pequenos registros dos meus dias. Ainda estou lembrando aos poucos como que eu fazia isso, quais processos mentais eu tinha…
Depois de um post inteiro reclamando, quero tirar um tempo para agradecer o que me tirou risadas nos últimos dias - teve um momento que eu e o conge assistimos a um filme de comédia. O que parecia ser um filme besta de adolescente realmente surpreendeu e nos arrancou boas risadas na sexta-feira a noite. Meu amor deu…
After already having several goodbye parties in Chile from friends and family that think I'm not coming back, today I say goodbye to the end of my gap semester to return to Chile. It's also a goodbye to my long distance relationship partner once again (for like the 7th time) by now I should be a pro at this. But,…
I always thought that I was flexible, could adapt well, and thrive in the newest of environments. But with the speed at which the entire digital landscape around us is changing, I'm not so confident anymore. Having always tied my worth to my productivity, what if I'm not relevant anymore? Another thing that worries me…
I can’t believe I spent the whole day reading Joyce and Woolf just to try to understand what people like about them — why do I always do that? Give people chances when I clearly don’t like them? (Well I liked Joyce in high school; or at least one story from the Dubliners. And Woolf has said some nice paragraphs which…
Read the news about the incident in Itaewon in South Korea. Shocking event really. 156+ dead with 151+ injured. Work was productive. I can finally start working on design docs to push for ideas I’ve had. I started looking at jetbrains space, a new productivity tool. Started looking at the ActivityPub protocol. It…
I just finished a delightful read on Substack. I’m consistently in awe at the volumes of good writing that’s just waiting to be read out there. It will take no less than a miracle to find these pieces. For as many templatized, SEO-optimized, value-because-it-monetized pieces out there – I think there might just be as…
As a child born in the 70s, along with other Gen X's, we all grew up without social media. In 1984, I remember watching the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games which was being telecast from Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. Swamy, our lovely neighbours on the 2nd floor had invited all the children in the apartment complex…
In my dream I was suddenly transported back to a very specific moment in high school: it was on a Saturday during the lunch break at my drawing class all the way on the opposite end of the city. The noodles I slurped from that 24hr Lawson were chewy, but that wasn’t where my attention lay. I was ecstatic about dating…
Tried weights to stretch my ears for the first time. They seem to work very well. I’m trying to get back to 38mm like I had a few years ago. I went from 32mm to 35mm with this first time using the two 32g weights. I think I’m going to stay at this size for awhile and let my ears get use to it before I try moving up…
Found this website through my best friend. Looked very minimalistic and quite cool. Might be my new place to jot down thoughts. 300 words (I think) are just enough to bring enough clarity to thoughts yet keep them succinct. Let's see.
It's late, it has been a long day, and I am tired. Opening the laptop to write my daily post as part of the writing challenge feels draining and I don't really want to do it. So why do I do this? In those moments of doubt I should remind myself of the bigger picture. Often, the tasks that seem most draining are the…
Wednesday 29th January. 18 games on one evening. An accumulator-builder's dream. This is a gluttony of football. One show promising to serve up this grotesque buffet of deep-fried dopamine hits. "We go live to the San Siro" "There's been an equaliser for City" "Big chance for Benfica" This is football reduced to its…
Hoje uma colega de trabalho me falou sobre o quarto branco do bbb. Fiquei pensando seriamente se eu, enquanto pessoa física, pegasse algumas pessoas, trancasse em um quarto, desse só água e bolacha de água e sal, deixasse eles dormirem no chão, não apagasse as luzes em nenhum momento, colocasse choro de criança e…
You should be asking yourself what’s the goal Else you’ll be working under G And problem with people like him is they never tell you their details They just want what they wanted People working under them won’t feel so appreciated and it’ll be in another words: pain in the ass You walk through IKEA finding yourself…
Assistindo a um documentário sobre invenções que nos poupam tempo (ou não), pensei em viagens no tempo, e em como estamos viajando no tempo, mas apenas em uma direção: para o futuro. É uma viagem contínua, sem volta, e cada segundo que passou foi aproveitado ou perdido. Mas como julgamos se estamos aproveitando ou…
Hello, As a kid I spent many hours gaming and one of my favorite genre was "RPG" (Role Playing) because these game were open ended and played out based on the choices that the player makes based on internal & external considerations. The effects of these choices are consequential. Everything in a good RPG effects the…
Situation: There is a couple at the coffee shop. She is 37, he seems older. They are not talking at all. He is onto his cellphone. Story: I wonder is she still remembers the first time that he kiss her. Now, there is only distance between them. It feels like today she didn't take any time to choose whatever she was…
There is a word in Hindi called 'theherav.' It comes from the Hindi word theherna(to stop), but theherav doesn't mean to stop. It means something related to a person's character that allows them to feel collected most of the time. You know how many people make being clumsy their personality? A person with theherav…
We're so obsessed with the idea of permanence--we now fully believe in it. So much so, that it might as well be a new religion. Apart from words like 'forever' and 'endless' being used to describe our 'undying' affection/dislike for one another we've started to manifest permanence in other ways. Mostly by taking life…
as i transcribe her old columns, newspaper clippings yellowed with years, flanked by ads for local shops that no longer exist, her persona begins to take form. as if i were sitting at a potter's wheel, coaxing out a shape. as if i were writing a novel, the setting and characters slowly coming to life. i did not…
A very quick digital collage. I like playing with collage but I don't know if they're any good. Though how can you go wrong? I might pick this one up again and play with it further. Maybe I can just store these here.
Is by putting the first focus towards the other party Genuinely interested in what she is saying And reply to that sentence “Hahaha is that why you put Bryan beside my seat” That’s a sign of intelligence. A social intelligence Because you’re relating HER in the picture Not at all YOU She talks you relate HERS So is…
I had the privilege of a very long talk with my skip boss. What started off with niceties about skiing quickly moved to discussing a major problem at work. Earlier this week we discovered a necessary change to the database required to move forward with what had been a trivial value-add in our app. The change required…
The day your parents come Is the day you test your emotional intelligence Remember it’s not always what you want It’s doing what THEY WANT Give it all up and relax for these 3 days 说话温柔体贴… You used to always feeling not confident Is the result of your 4 years experience in uni You have your decision to choose You can…
every day you must take time a short time to eat a cookie there will be a time that a cookie will be the last cookie you'll ever eat so if you eat a cookie every day you're fighting the chances that the cookie you last ate was the ultimate last cookie of your life don't waste time on bad cookies
Elon Musk said: "Love is the way, no matter what." For a man with four wives and twelve children, it may seem easy to say such a thing, but after giving it solid thought, he is true. Love is an intrinsic craving for every individual; if you were to ask anyone, they would undoubtedly recount their experiences with…
Change brings uncertainty, and it's easy to get lost in the maze of "what ifs." I'm currently in the process of organizing many things and entering a completely new chapter in my life. There are countless variables, question marks, and potential bottlenecks where things could go wrong. Yes, it makes sense to consider…
Cara, vou começar pelo sonho. Com frequência eu sonho com comida. Mas não são sonhos normais. São sonhos mega realistas, tão realistas que eu sinto o gosto das comidas e acordo louca querendo aquilo. O sonho da vez foi com um bolo de chocolate. O processo da receita envolvia maracujá, manga e, claro, o chocolate. Um…
Oh Hi! This seems so cool! 🤩 I love it, simple and clean. Oh it counts words not letters. Means,ifIdon’tUseSpace,itCountsJustOneWordLOL(thisIsStill1word!HaHa). Very interesting. I love this font, it makes me feel like I’m coding 😂
The factual background of this book is already striking. Padma and Lalli, two lower-middle class teenage girls, go missing from their unremarkable Western UP village in the summer of 2014. They are found hanging from a mango tree. Their family refuses to allow the bodies to be brought down till justice is done. Sonia…
Problem-solving is a skill we begin practicing in infancy. Problems never go away. Our strategies for solving them change with age and practice. Use journaling as a strategy for dealing with frustrations, problems, and negative emotions. Even if you don't journal daily, writing your thoughts gives you an opportunity…
hot chocolate howling winds my italian neighbor was like "do you have an extra line? let's tie an extra line so that your boat is more stable" i was like yes please and our danish neighbor was like "wait wait don't put it there, because it could rip your stanchion. here, let's take this cleat instead" jumped on my…
Two habits merged to convince me I could journal gratitude daily. I kept a food and water journal for health reasons. I eat and drink every day. I was already setting up a “journal” each morning. It took my first cohort in Ship 30 to show me I could write daily. There is a big difference between a list of food and…
- tao lin - ocean vuong - sheila heti - jordan castro but ocean vuong is kind of the king of this because he talks with this level of clarity IRL
wake up early // get active // find solitude 4 am // run + lift // movement meditation "We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope" - Romans 5:3-4
When hunter-gatherers discovered fire, they would have felt it was magic. But now, when we look at fire, we just see it as a normal thing. In recent times, there are a lot of AI tools popping up. When looking at tools like ChatGPT, it feels like magic, but in another five years, it will become a normal thing, like…
That is life these days. The moles keep popping up. I’m knocking them down but not at the pace that feels sustainable to keep them at bay. So, time to figure out how to kill the moles before they’re out of control.
One of my favorite ways of expressing and receiving love is through creating assemblages—sharing a playlist of carefully chosen songs, an are.na board that appeals to a person’s specific interests, a collection of seemingly arbitrary objects that tell a story about a relationship’s history… Through this exchange, a…
"The technological enthusiasm and hobbyism of today is strikingly similar to at the turn of the 19th century, and it has led a comparable degree of willful blindness about the risks. In 1903, the managers of a big New York dynamite manufacturing company begged publicly to The New York Times for new laws to abide by.…
I kind of want to read Holzfällen twice, in German then in English because I feel that the voice is completely different. perhaps I should read Murakami again, in Japanese. or try to... Philip Gabriel's translations of Murakami is such a special voice and I really really enjoy it but what does Murakami actually sound…
Some people move through life like furniture, always there, but never holding weight. Their presence hums with borrowed purpose. They exist best in reflected light, speaking loud in rooms that forgive forgetfulness. You start to notice the soft betrayals: the delayed reply dressed as distraction, the listening that…
