Manas Sadasivuni

We’re impermanent. In the long run, anything we do now will be gone. Despite this, we feel a need to create and make something to call our own. Why?

Introduction Well this year’s been tough. There’s no easy way to preface this so just scroll down and read. I’ll see you at the end. School Since COVID-19 cancelled my final IGCSE exams, my final grades were based on my mocks and classwork. Honestly, I’m quite happy with my results as I was expecting to … Read more

Balance has always been something that’s been sought after. Whether it’s in the politics of the world, or on a less macro scale, what you do in a day. This feat has become more arduous since the beginning of quarantine as there’s less divide.

In an episode of The Ground Up Show by Matt D’Avella, he and Greg McKeon are talking about journaling. They mentioned how people would buy books and then write page long journal entries off the bat. By the second day, they don’t feel like writing as much as they previously had and put it off. By the third day, they have two days of journaling to make up for and at that point, they’ve all but given up on maintaining a journal. By doing way too much when starting off, they set their expectations for the following iterations too high.

Time blocking is an underrated way to get more stuff done and it’s ridiculously simple to do. It just needs a bit of foresight.