Miscellaneous

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.

I saw this video by Veritaseum, which talks about how the equation below, called the logistic map, connects a leaky tap, a population of rabbits, and the Mandelbrot set.

At this point, if you say that you don’t regularly consume information you’re a liar. For one, you’re on a blog which is beaming information straight into those eyeballs of yours. Second, if you don’t consume information, how are you? Like everywhere you go and everything you do involves the consumption of information in one form or another which just adds to your digital diet.

One of my friends, Karthik Nandula, joined a challenge to write a total of 1,000,000 words. Not in one go of course, but over 1000 days. Sounds like a lot right? Anyway, The essence of the challenge is: 1000 words, for 1000 days. Pretty simple but also quite daunting at the same time.