When I was in college, I came home my freshman year to my mom with a tattered pair of skinny jeans, and she gave me some fantastic, lifelong advice: if I like something, I should get multiple copies of it. To this day that’s what I do. I hate shopping, and for day-to-day it’s difficult Read More …
Day 1 of Invisalign I had 20 minutes to eat between meetings, and 15 minutes in I still hadn’t gotten my bottom tray out despite prying at it with my fingers just like the dentist taught me. And it hurt like hell! What did I get myself into? How did I get here? And could Read More …
After a long time separating out my humanities and lifestyle blogging from my technical blogging, I’m transitioning my Medium over to this blog permanently to have a unified polymathic single stop shop for thoughts. This process was a bit cumbersome to discover, as the AIs and many threads claimed there was a plugin or native Read More …
I find my productivity and habit systems tend to need switching up over time; either my. phase of life changes, or if it doesn’t, I acquire immunity to existing approaches. This past year, I’ve been influenced by reading Atomic Habits, as well as participating in the Street Parking online fitness community (who themselves are big Read More …
Tinyletter was shut down unbeknownst to me earlier in 2024. I used TinyLetter to chronicle my nearly-a-year at the geographic South Pole. Now that I’ve left social media and am no longer reading the news, I’d like to keep in touch with folks more via email so I thought to look up my old subscribers Read More …
You might have run across my posts about my extreme inbox management: TLDR: I previously used hundreds of filters, marking many as read, and partitioning the inbox. The crux of the method is a label I have: to-respond, which I immediately triaged any email that needed a response to. Now in the 2020s I’ve updated Read More …
After posting Bridging the Great Stagnation: Why Taking an Extra Decade to Master the Fundamentals Matters, I got wind from my dedicated social contact who braves Twitter that some are interested in a book list alongside. Rather than post specific books, I’ll post my personal algorithm for the content I focused on reading during each Read More …
In the 1800s, educated elites were expected to be proficient in Latin, Greek, classical literature, religious knowledge, moral philosophy, public speaking, writing, basic arithmetic, geometry, natural philosophy (covering fundamental physics, astronomy, and biology), music, art, poetry, classical and national history, geography, French, and social graces. Physical activities like horseback riding, rowing, and fencing were also Read More …
My guess is probably not. I went into the Apple Store today to finally try out the Vision Pro. I had on an Apple Watch Ultra, and a top of the line MacBook Pro, the latest iPhone, and the AirPods Max in my bag; that’s not even the whole of the Apple products I own. Read More …
I’ve picked up chess as a fun hobby as an adult, alongside my kids who are learning it as well. I remember enjoying the game as a kid, but not really having anyone to play with. When I grew older, I was a bit intimidated by it—thinking it as a constant test of intelligence, instead Read More …