A monkey with a typewriter

I did not know there was whole theorem around it. Until just ten minutes ago, while I went on a wild goose chase of reading about our ancestors. It's pretty cool what can happen over a long enough timeline. It's called the Infinite monkey theorem and…

The second wind | Getting surprised by Cursor

Sometime the best thing to do is nothing. By nothing I mean, making no decisions about whether or not to continue or to quit, to change directions or stay the course. Last week and the week before that I was in a state of what should I do as if…

How I almost didn't & Compounding shifts

There are quite a few times I feel justified to take a break, some of the time these are valid and I do feel the rest helped. But only some of the time. Most times, there is a voice in my head says, you might regret this. It turns out…

Buried gold beneath the pile of...

Within myself is the truth about my fears, joys, insecurities, competence, weaknesses and strengths. And many more things which words cannot articulate or I don't have the words to do so, yet. Quite often I find myself wanting to react to discomfort that I feel within myself. It…

200th Post | 186 of them in the last 200 odd days

I was going to write this tomorrow but just idea of me writing almost two hundred posts in the last two hundred days feels unreal. Considering just ten months ago I was at the darkest point of my life so far, at least one of them. How one thing can…

Expanding resilience; a little bit at a time

I've been pondering resilience and removing things from my life that make the important things seem harder—like deciding to not watch YouTube ever. It might seem harmless, but it is far from it. It's been less than a week, so it's too early…

Genius or lunacy? I think lunacy 😂

A couple of days ago, I made the decision to do something about my constant need for distraction and its subsequent effects on my inability to focus and do hard things for long periods of time. The approach to dealing with this bad habit is not novel, but it has…