I have always thought about the future, and yet, I can’t come to grips with growing older. Saying that I’m 21 feels odd, weird, and unnatural because just the blink of an eye ago — I was 16 and full of angst and Bukowski poetry. I didn’t imagine myself as…

Who am I gonna rip off today? Is it going to be some productivity advice I read in a book last year? Is it going to be the one phrase I remember from a song? When will finally get an original thought? All of this has been said and done…

Why it’s so hard to quit the things that kill us. I’ve been trying to change up some of my habits, one at a time. And it’s so. freaking. hard. It rationally never made sense to me until I did some revision on mainstream neuroscience. From what my simple mind…

Create macros and learn how to automate the monotonous parts of your job. Even 0.1% more efficiency per week compounds over time Have multiple sources of income, please. It allows you to be more fearless about pursuing your ambitions The first 4–5 working hours are when you do 80% of…

My most read genre over the last 2 years has been self-help or industry-specific non-fiction books. Now, I’ve changed my perspective on them. There’s an art to getting the most value out of them. Here are the commandments: Never read them for motivation Reading for motivation is like mental masturbation. External motivation to change your…

Your baby sibling growing up from being a toddler to a fully-functional human being. Seeing a young couple having the most wholesome coffee date. Seeing someone passionately talk about their hopes and dreams. Logging off a bit earlier than usual. Seeing a constellation and getting the name correctly. Being drunk…

Have you lost your emotional depth over the years? I have. I look back on how empathetic and perceptive I was back as an adolescent. Not anymore. It’s just work talk, sharing memes, and following up with people from another city. Has the world made me more apathetic over the…

Things aren’t under your control and it’s fine. I was very unhappy during my adolescence for one reason. I felt like I couldn’t control anything in my life. Hence, I had high hopes from college. I wanted to rebel. Do everything my way. I was looking at taking extreme control…

Unless you really want to. The last 5 years of a dystopian social media culture is fundamentally toxic. Social media, fads, and conforming to great marketing efforts has destroyed attention spans, cognitive abilities, and one very important thing. Creativity. The end of young artists 50 million people joined the creator economy in 2022. Young children…