Gathering thoughts…
A world of little thoughts.
It's been 12 days since my last writing exercise and it hasn't been time misspent. I and the wife went down to Jamaica to the South Coast Sandals resort which was all inclusive and absolutely awesome. Lots of night time eating, sushi all day, and i even learned to sail. I was really sad to see the state of affairs in…
Is to apply HARDWORKING THOUGHTS! And to be prepared! You’re good at last minute changes cos you had to. But planning on the goal to success is what’s important right? Having that vision - and combine knowing what and how to adapt based on different circumstances. If you study just one day earlier - you could’ve…
[since pretty much no one would be able to find this link unless they saw my goodreads account, i've decided to put a lot of my book-focused ideas here] some readers are also writers, but sometimes people are just purely readers. i'm watching tokyochemist on youtube compare virginia woolf and ottessa moshfegh and she…
Autonomy and decision-making as an adult really does seem like a simple concept that I should have in my pocket by now. Somehow still, this practice has continued to elude me. Until now… It’s so strange and exciting to finally accept that I can move forward in such a decision as lifelong marriage commitment. And…
I love Neil Pasricha's approach on 'being happy first'. Be happy first, then your best work will come. It doesn't work the other way.
At some point, you find you've become become 'senior'. No advance notice is sent of this and it does not figure on any meeting agendas. When someone introduces me as 'highly experienced', I look over my shoulder to see who they are really talking about. As seniority hits, I'm finding myself learning more and more from…
You should shed people’s expectations of whom you should be or what you should behave like. There is no reason to be concerned with what your friends or neighbours or acquitances think about you. You’re the driver in your life, only you can see your road ahead and the journey you have traversed. You cannot expect…
The other night I gave my wife a formal amends for some wrongs that I had done. And now that I word it this way I forgot the most difficult and important three words: I. Was. Wrong. I admitted to and asked forgiveness for being judgmental, being a score-keeper, being unappreciative around the house. Lastly, I asked…
ahh some ideas initially spark a lot of enthusiasm. now that same idea does not interest me, it lacks substance. the hard question to answer is do i continue to peruse the idea by giving it more substance? only if the idea to better it sparks stronger enthusiasm than the original idea. this would become a totally…
Recentemente eu comecei a ler o livro "Fazer justiça" de uma francesa um ano mais velha do que eu chamada Elza Marsault. Bem, ela faz algumas críticas que eu considero muito pertinentes à militância do jeito que ela é hoje, e eu vou destacar um trecho da primeira parte dessa leitura que eu fiz aqui. "Essa vigilância…
1. Work on yourself only. 2. Better or faster to have a mentor 3. No distraction - schedule yourself and only do else if taskschedule Saw quote {It’s okay not to be perfect} But it’s not okay not to be striving for perfection I think that’s the motto Need the ability to look through the big picture Having the mission…
- 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…
I have rejoined the Linking Your Thinking (LYT) cohort. Currently in Workshop 9, I am serving as a mentor, as well as enjoying updates the founder and host, Nick Milo, has created. An exercise from yesterday's first live super session (via Zoom, of course) included "STIRring knowledge" - Space, Time, Importance,…
i mean, why not just write it in a private journal? or go the other way and book-publish all your thoughts? just look at sheila heti, publishing a catalogue of thoughts from her diary alphabetized from a-z (she is so busy that she can't even organize them by theme NOT TO BORROW SCHOPENHAUER'S IDEAS LEST HE CALL ME A…
It's the first week back at my job after a two week vacation. I had a nice Monday: no meetings, just checking email, code reviews. Then, on Tuesday, the onslaught begins. Meetings, meetings, Slack, distractions, multiple threads, dropping balls all over the place. Feeling dumb. Here we go again. I got some feedback…
More need to realize the age we as a species will soon enter. While the old system titters at the brink, the dawn of a new way of life will follow quickly and make the suffering of this age die like a bad habit. Let me explain (and this is the perfect platform to do this). Every technology we’ve built has iterated…
- Not a second brain - Not a full-blown PK - Not even a draft space for articles It's a place for mindful consumption, storage and meaning making. The system is inspired by Justin Mikolay's note-taking system, that he considers as a key part to his creative process 3 steps: 1. Reading 2. Thinking (aka note-taking) 3.…
Writing without proper capitalization, punctuation and spelling is like attending Zoom meetings in your pajamas. Everybody knows you're there. What difference does it make, one might ask? Why go through the trouble of being presentable when there is no functional difference? We are not purely functional beings. A…
• DO WHAT YOU CAN. As long as you start momentum habits. • Principles are the same. You just had to apply. • Listen to your parents but don’t take advice from poor people. Instead, join and attract yourself to the rich. • Be clear in your mind - means doing hard work for the easiest tasks so that you don’t have…
Ontem almocei num restaurante daqueles bonitos de ver. A comida tinha boa aparência e o atendimento é do tipo que morro de saudades todos os dias. Simpático, às vezes até demais. Na mesa, eu, a Raquel e o Bruno. Passei a semana fazendo reuniões com o objetivo de criar pontes entre SP e Berlim, duas cidades irmãs, que…
I have always struggled to read books and I'm not talking just about the textbooks. No matter with how much enthusiasm I buy a book, the completion rate of reading a book used to be very low for me. However, this year I experienced a major shift in approach towards building a habit of reading. I wanted to summarise my…
(The following is a role playing diary written from the perspective of my Project Zomboid character) Days became easier once I got a working car, tools, weapons and a nice place far in the woods. I'm busy every day, yet sometimes I enjoy little moments like this more than before the outbreak. I was drowning in a badly…
Sometimes, I find myself self-critical over my apparent lack of focus, worrying that my broad range of interests doesn't get me anywhere. "Business Idea Factory" by Andrii Sedniev has helped me see the value in my widespread curiosity. The book highlights that exposure to diverse experiences is not just beneficial but…
I am far from a frequent flier. However over the last decade or so, I've taken more than my fair share of flights from Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore airports. Hyderabad, Goa and Delhi have figured a close second and in third place have been a smattering of flights including to cities like Lucknow, Leh, Indore,…
Excuse the generic title, I am programmed to type those words first on all social media- Orkut, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google plus, etc. For me, internet in the late 2000's was about discovering humour blogs. We used to have those neighbourhood newspapers complete with satirical takes on our everyday lives. A…
Please know that it is genuinely okay that people don't want to be in your life or they do not want to get part in one of the event that you're partaking it's totally perfect what you need to do though is be cool about it so when E is saying that i'm a good friend because you still go to a session that you know that…
The world of crypto has been rocked (yet again) with the FTX news. Weirdly enough, Meta also announced that they were laying off 11,000 employees today (the bottom?). The whole FTX saga unfolded really fast - just a few days - and that's what I find fascinating. One might view this as bad since FTX was a pretty large…
The duality baffles me. Of who I am, and who people think I am. Actually fuck duality. Let's call it the unholy trinity. Disgusts me. Who I am, who I think I am, and who people perceive me to be. It's surreal once you become slightly aware that you might already be living in a multiverse. Of your own faults. Of your…
na tentativa de RESOLVER (coisa que amo e sou viciada em) os milhares de pensamentos que me rondam todo dia estou aqui. já tentei 130 mídias papel post it páginas matinais, nada me parece muito sincero, sempre me edito e tento deixar mais polido do que é na mente. sendo um pouco cria da internet vai que aqui me sinto…
There are times when I look at contact list in my phone and feel like talking to a couple of them without any agenda. But I am afraid today to do so. I could do it easily in my younger days when the only purpose of phone was calling; SMS and listening to music were additional features. I did it for years and it helped…
Probably not. But for sure we can control how they control our actions. That's why writing your thoughts is the most important thing. Call it Journaling or not. But jotting it down and reflecting on those thoughts, help us see ideas. As ideas usually come at the intersection of thoughts. That's why a system where you…
i love books that are "aggressively pointless" like they make a point to be pointless (i learned this term from a goodreads user who condemned a book for having this quality that i so dearly cherish. btw; that guy with mainstream taste from youtube named "jack" actually disliked jordan castro's /the novelist/ which…
i've been doing this: (1) reading until my brain can't take any more words [currently reading fitzgerald and thomas bernhard; loving both] (2) music a lot of music (3) write repeat that's my fun routine. my unfun routine is boat work. ha.
My heart asks my brain this question every 23 mins of each day. Why would you not want to do the task right away? Do you not know where to start? Is whatever you want to do, something you are not ready for? Are you scared you're not good enough? Let's work for it right now then? It gets tiring, fighting the wrong…
O último gole de álcool que tomei foi na virada do ano. Prometi começar 2023 aderindo a um detox alcoólico, aqui chamado de "Dry January", campanha que muita gente abraça no começo do ano ao lado do "Veganuary", mas eu achei muita coisa para dar conta e só abracei a primeira. "Beber menos álcool" está sempre nas…
i just did a yoga session https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2D1WYgUeuM i thought about karl the whole time. who is karl? karl is a white haired old man we met at a port in greece everyone was freaking out!! because a flotilla came and dragged everyone's anchor karl was cool as a motherfucker. he stood there pitying…
O ano novo começou em companhia da minha amiga querida Jessica. Pisciana sincerona, vaidosa, generosa e cheia de sonhos, como eu. Falamos mt sobre esses desejos, escrevi alguns em um caderno de folhas brancas onde também tem os últimos quadrados de 2022. Tínhamos planos de cozinhar, mas topamos com todos os mercados…
& control your own. Emotions, Your time, Your relationships, Your mental strength. Know the cards if you want to play the game Then you won’t feel anxious or feeling that the world is against you Know that the world won’t be pretty with people First important skills: learn how to deal with different people And what…
The lenses we use to view events in our lives can greatly affect our perception of those events. I'm sure you've seen pictures of galaxies, with their magnificent colors and shapes. The naked eye will only see a black space because it is only capable of seeing visible light. But with the right set of tools, you can…
"To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around." -- Richie Norton A few days ago, on my way to the gym, I saw a dog barking and provoking a bull, causing it to run amok. The dog didn't shy away from fear; instead, it charged straight at it, refusing to be intimidated by the bull's size. Surprisingly, the bull…
H.266 VVC is technically better than AV1. In terms of Quality, Performance and Complexity. FVC is a working name for the successor of VVC. With a target of 50% reduction regardless of computing power. In all previous case they have encoding and decoding complexity target. So it seems FVC is trying to push the boundary…
I'm someone who feels FOMO not about the parties I'm not going to but about the things I'm not doing, the hobbies I haven't tried out, the books on my TBR/ I'm someone who feels sick in the stomach just thinking about conflict, and would do anything to not feel that way/ I'm someone who's on cloud 9 when I find an…
the idea of inbox zero is enough to make my head spin. to be honest, I've felt this way for a while, but being available has always felt like one of my biggest strengths, so I've tried to put my head down and persevere. the problem is the demand never stops. and the more you take on, the less boundaries you set, the…
Sometimes it's easy to forget, with how big the internet seems, how small the world is. I clicked on a link to read an article by Raina Raskin, a new mother, about how the first time her baby smiled at her shattered her illusions about what mattered in life. All that status-seeking, career-promoting bullshit didn't…
Writing like a lawyer for over twenty five years had clogged my system with literary cholesterol. I was never a fan of legal jargon - you won't get a "hereinafter" out of me - but years of legal writing made Jaitly a dull scribe. Giving legal advice, or drafting a contract, requires words to have unambiguous meanings:…
i just wrote back my father in-law -- who asked me where i am spending christmas, on the boat or back to the US -- that i'm indeed spending christmas on the boat as to save money for boat projects and that i'm looking forward to reading (a thomas bernhard book, i said) and writing if he were to ask which thomas…
is that bad? i want him to read marie calloway bc i think he could really relate and really love it and it'll convince him to live the life that i want for him [i see him as the robert to my patti smith, the edie sedgwick to my andy warhol, and the andy warhol to my edie sedgwick] whenever i'm around him or recall our…
So often, children want to be independent. They don’t want help. At my age, I willingly accept help. I’m not afraid to ask for help, either. Perhaps it takes maturity to appreciate and accept the offer of help. Offering help feels good. Help, as simple as holding a door open or picking up a dropped item for another…
