Gathering thoughts…
A world of little thoughts.
You're a man, 1. Wake up early. 2. Pray. 3. Make your bed. 4. Brush your teeth. 5. Drink a glass of water. 6. Review your to-do list. 7. Meditate. 8. Read. 9. Write. 10. Lift. 11. Stay sober. 12. Increase your income. Nothing hurts a man like zero progress in his life.
reading Holzfällen after reading "the Novelist" by Jordan Castro is a special experience. it is like the same book.
I am wondering what it takes to be all right today or on other days. Yesterday — or maybe two yesterdays ago — I was unsteady. I woke up and the breaths didn't want to escape my lungs through my mouth or their proper airways. I realize what was calling to me wasn't the mortal drag of my eventual drop to the ground.…
i have never recovered from the love i felt for you it doesn't matter if someone is bf material or not--you can fall in love with them--because it's not for the sake of making them your bf that you fell in love with them
Things I did wrong in the relationship: 1. I did not walk away 2. I was not truthful about what I was feeling to myself (though I feel like my feelings were criminalised, I do think I need to take responsibility for this) 3. Self regulating my actions despite him begging me multiple times not to - I almost felt like…
So, I learned a few things over the weekend. Can anyone from a so-called third-world country like Indonesia guess the average cost of a one-bedroom apartment in New York City? It’s $4,778 per month or roughly IDR 79 million. Holy. Freaking. Airball. For that price, we could probably rent a room in Istana Bogor and…
Recently, I faced a challenge with relapse, and it was difficult to cope with the urges triggered by external factors. However, I managed to let go of the temptation and move forward. It was a tough day, but I found relief in staying strong. Although I regretted the relapse, the experience offered me a moment of…
If God really loved us, would He make us make coffee before we’ve had coffee?
After being in the world of business communication for a while, it seems that whenever someone takes a long time to respond, they apologize for it. They say that their personal life is busy, or had other priorities to take care of. The problem is that after seeing this over and over, it loses its effect. I would do…
ahh as i continue to think about ways to create in the realm of digital worlds it becomes more evident that old utopian concepts are relevant to todays context. in Constant's New Babylon there was a notion that we crave adventure. to adapt in a digital world would be; when we dont find our current world stimulating,…
Strive for making the hardest decision Even relationships or flirting People don’t expect the easiest answer you know… it’s kinda easy to say the most obvious answer Think twice - and go for the hardest Think of this life: you’re playing the childhood game & suddenly you’re 26/27 Age is just a number. Now you gotta do…
We're all busy beings. Gotta do this. Gonna make that. Stuff on my plate. Things on my list. Then there's the stuff we want to do but can't seem to get together. A little more movement. Deeper sleep. Sorting that room out in the back. Putting some time into the garden. Finishing that book. All the shoulds. Languishing…
Ask more, tell less.
Aqui em São Paulo tem uma padaria chamada olivier. É de um apresentador e chef famosinho e, sinceramente, vale o hype. Eu, que gosto de coisa boa, não resisti. No final do ano, convenci cinco amigas do trabalho a irem lá comigo para um cafézinho de finalização do ano. Chegamos, sentamos e eu e mais uma das meninas…
Ahhh! a bold idea can spark conversation between those who never spoke before. it's weight is heavy before the conversation existed. it becomes lighter as the idea is shared in conversations with others...
reflect & manifest reverb23 in january adapts the reverb10 event shared about in this post - https://nicheless.blog/post/before-%7C-reverb-in-december-20 "... online initiative to reflect on your year and manifest what’s next ... an opportunity to reflect on what's happened, and to send out reverberations for the year…
honestly, i'm not even sure if it's a skill to have, but two underrated skills are longevity (or persistence) and focus. first let's start with longevity. i was listening to a david dobrik's podcast a few days ago and he was saying that he didn't really speak to any friends he made in his first year in LA. not because…
A friend recently asked me if he should upgrade to business class. My initial reaction was to mock him for spending so much money. It was quite the opposite to what he hoped for - he probably felt because he could now afford to fly business, I'd respect him more. That was not the case, but as I thought about it more,…
Schumpeter's theory about how capitalist economies tend to continually renew themselves through creative destruction is kind of like how forest biomes are supposed to work when they are not being mucked up by humans. Emergent systems like forests and markets have a lot of commonalities in this regard. They are not…
What is a model for radical honesty, and how can we communicate it in a way that others understand both our actions and their role in them? Consider a quadrant with "benefit to self" and "benefit to others" as its cornerstones. The opposite side consists of losses to oneself and others. Examining this model, what…
Recently, I have been applying my method for learning Chinese characters to my university studies (well to my final degree exam). It's funny that I'm only starting to use it now that I've finished all my courses, but it's never too late to implement this technique in other subjects. I always thought that with my…
as current AI tools develop and more people use them. i have noticed subtle consistencies that pop up in stable diffusion. finding the consistencies and adapting them will be the difference from the average user to a unique user. one of the more obvious consistency are poses for portrait images. there are only a few…
turned on the water heater to shower and then was like "nah" smelled my armpit, and confirmed my "nah" i smell like nothing.
In the book "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman, there is a distinction made between two aspects of thinking: system one and system two. System one refers to fast and automatic thinking, while system two involves slow and deliberate thought processes. For everyday tasks like opening doors or getting dressed,…
she stood there broken because she heard someone she held dear telling another a sacred confession of public adoration and she stood and sobbed unaware of it all oblivious the same sadness consumes me when i recall that i don’t serve him dinners or he doesn’t hold me through oaths and i think to myself; you & me both
"As long as you believe in yourself and believe that you are good at what you do, people are gonna start believing in you" In the start up sauna event there was a panel of founders discussing their experiences and life journey and this phrase just stuck with me. For me, I kinda feel people in my circle believe in me…
Comentando um pouco sobre escrever todos os dias, mesmo este sendo somente o segundo: não é fácil. Mas aqui vou eu. Como alguns de vocês sabem, faz seis anos que estou tentando me formar como historiador da arte na Universidade Federal de São Paulo. Hoje tenho muito orgulho da minha trajetória, mas foi algo que tive…
I’m a big advocate of making the most out of the cards you’re dealt. Take what you have in the 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 get…
Tá aí uma coisa que eu me desdobro para cumprir. Não gosto de amigo secreto, karaoke, confra de firma e outras coisas que coloquem na mesma frase colegas de trabalho e festa. E é uma questão. Grande questão. Quem não é visto não é lembrado e toda essa baboseira inventada por uma pessoa claramente extrovertida. Eu me…
in my last post, i wrote about how persistence is a good skill to have in a world where it's as easy to drop into a dao then to drop out of it (or most of the time ghost the dao). a tangential skill that is hand in hand with persistence is focus. focus is something that is underrated in a world where our attention…
I have done okay as dad this month. While my son did tell me that "I sucked", it was only after he lost control of his temper trying to fit a couple of Lego pieces together, and needed to be separated from them. I take that as a win. When he runs home from the bus, he will give me a great big hug, I will tell him that…
Doing some research tonight, but came across this helpful commentary on 1 Corinthians 15:22-23 from St John Chrysostom (Homily 39): "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." What then? Tell me; did all die in Adam the death of sin ? How then was Noah righteous in his generation? And how…
Today is Mother’s Day but, as I write this, none of my family has remembered. I don’t really mind. I know I’ll get an embarrassed apology at some point later today or tomorrow. I do know they love me. But I’m going to remember it for my own mum. A couple of months before her death, she told me I didn’t need to deliver…
I spoke with a friend who had recently written off some friends when they were unwilling to engage in debate and acknowledge what he had to say. In one instance, I recall that he had taken the time to write a well constructed and well thought out email concerning a hot button topic. In response, he was dismissed and…
My birthday is February 14. I have a week to decide what gift I should ask for that is going to define my life. Snowboard pants? A raspberry pi to run a Bitcoin full node? My wife asked me what she should nudge the kids to get me: post-apocalyptic graphic novels or a young adult lit book in Spanish. These are the…
When ever we talk about ARM and Performance. Most discussions, whether that is on Twitter, HN or Reddit immediately jump into an Apple Fanboy thread. And pointing out how far behind the other ARM cores are. But is that really the case? Apple A16 has a GB5 of 1870 @ 3.6Ghz. Running at close to 5W. On the same TSMC 4nm,…
These are the big things I'm thinking of right now: 1. Trade less Last cycle I was obsessed with rebalancing portfolios and trying to be agile. I made a stupid number of trades, often daily. I got lost, it didn't really work, and it was exhausting. This time around, I will be more deliberate and intentional. 2.…
Remember when paper towel dispensers were exclusively mechanical? They did not require a source of electricity. Fewer moving parts. No motion sensors, no motors, lower cost of manufacturing. Sturdy, reliable, efficient. K.I.S.S. Sometimes, ascending the technological hierarchy results in superior products. Fuel…
I love the phrase "I'm so lucky." No matter the circumstances, every time I say, "I'm so lucky," I find countless positive things in a day, no matter what happens. Our van door fell off, we had the worst food ever, or I had a headache. But on those same days, we drove through Scotland, stayed in front of beautiful…
OpenAI keeps shipping world-changing products at a ridiculous pace. And I’m terrified. The computer revolution went after scribes and accountants. The internet revolution went after mailmen and retailers. Now, the AI revolution is coming for the creative folk. And I like to think I’m one of them. It’s natural to be…
Building a habit of daily writing is one of the things that many folks out there recommend. Just the act of taking some time out and put stuff out in a physical or digital notepad is enough for the effects to start compounding. For many, this would be okay. The issue lies on you eventually wanting to publish that out…
TL;DR: when I am sending my Calendly link, please know my intent is to save each of us time, not some sort of presumption that my calendar is more important than yours. Longer: I am pro-Calendly. I realize that there has been a debate around it following a VC's rant. I get the critique: if I send a Calendly to you,…
Never be stressful about relationships Even when the Grab driver is doing stupid things such as driving a bit to the front when you walk towards it - I don’t know what is his intentions but if I step forward and go forward and fight: it’s a waste of time. I will keep thinking about the negative points and I’ll be…
This is me writing about how I managed to wake up today and being poetic about it because why not haha I peered out, blurry and blinking leaving dreams behind - most of myself selling crumbs of bargains for an ounce of sleep each I promised myself the edge of the world my eyes in line with the slit in the doorway, -…
I stan'd about BlockFi for years. Yesterday, the FTX contagion was realized and withdrawals were frozen. I stand to lose $50,000 USD in Stablecoins, my ACH withdrawal is in a "Pending" state. I spoke to my wife and let her know. This money represents many hours of my life, sleepless nights, hard work, and time away…
I'm soon going to complete my 30th lap around the Sun. I'm not sure what life expectancy is these days, but it's fair to assume that I'm half way through life. The years ahead me will be very different from the ones of the past. I'll probably have more resources but less energy. It's like the part of the movie post…
I have been sitting here on my couch for about 45 minutes attempting to write something. I obviously got started (as you are reading this now), but I'm curious about what took me so long. I'm very distracted. So many more things were interesting to me than writing 300 words on this blank page. Here's everything that…
Louco ver a patinação onde Vera Iaconelli se enfiou na entrevista com a grande artista Tadaskia. Eu ouço o podcast dela, isso não é uma sessão de análise, numa curiosidade quase antropológica sobre a vida das amigas da mesma raça e classe social (em sua maioria), onde ela consegue guiar a conversa por campos…
