Notes
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On Patience
What good does being patient do?
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On Creating, Fast and Slow
A different take on Daniel Kahneman’s book Thinking, Fast and Slow.
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On feeling small
A phrase that rattles around in my mind often.
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On and on (and on and)
The power of my favourite conjunction.
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The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.
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On Parallel Universes
A letter to a friend who still dances.
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On Going Home
Notes from my trip to India after two years
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On Burnout
How it feels to be burnt out at the start of 2025.
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On Blogging
Why I’m blogging this year, and what I’m hoping to get out of it.
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The Power of Multi-disciplinary Thinking
The world has to be multi-disciplinary, especially when it comes to making decisions.
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Sustainable Web Design – Tom Greenwood
Can web design become a redemptive technology? How can web technology empower people to take meaningful action to restore our natural world?
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About this Website
This website is a work in progress. It’s part of my master-plan to create a space on the internet where I can think, explore and showcase my projects all in one place. If you’ve hear of or used Obsidian before,…
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Lost & Found – Kathryn Schulz
It is impossible to overstate how emotionally, ethically, and intellectually impaired we would be if we could not perceive connections among seemingly dissimilar things.
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General Notes
Must have D3 js graphs Light color palette Hover and scroll graph RHS “Footnotes” (can this be done using only CSS?) windmill / badges in the footer breadcrumbs Only WEBP images if any low cost/budget – whether thats hosting, fonts,…
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Being Mortal – Atul Gawande
“It’s not death we fear, but what happens before – losing our hearing, our memory, our best friends and our way of life.”
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Beirut Hellfire Society – Rawi Hage
They are open books who feel their only redemption might be in everything else remaining open too, and everything openly said.
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Kaikeyi – Vaishnavi Patel
“I know you and your propensity to assume the worst in all situations.” Did the palace feel smaller because I had grown accustomed to larger or because I myself had grown? It was the kind of challenge that would live…
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Beartown (Series) – Fredrick Backman
“The best thing about nature is that it isn’t nostalgic; rocks and trees don’t give a damn about their previous owners.”
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Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh – Shrayana Bhattacharya
Strange how people obsessed with talking about removing class divisions keep using all kinds of cultural markers to suggest how gauche the others are, to keep them down.
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Initial notes on veganism
If you’re interested in philosophy, when you have an argument presented to you, it can change the way that you think and will affect. This is more important than seeing a video of an animal being treated badly.
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Still in motion
A heartfelt essay I wrote for my Into to Nonfiction class.
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Circe – Madeline Miller
“That is one thing gods and mortals share: when we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world.”
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Educated – Tara Westover
“It would be past dusk by then—that moment just before night sets in, when the landscape is visible only as darkness and lighter darkness, and you feel the world around you more than you see it.” The call to education:…
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Creativity Inc. – Ed Catmull
“Too many of us think of ideas as being singular, as if they float in the ether, fully formed and independent of the people who wrestle with them. Ideas though are not singular. They are forged through thousands of decisions…
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Cosmicomics – Italo Calvino
“From her present formlessness she would be transformed into one of the infinite possible forms, still remaining herself, however. I didn’t imagine the forms that she might assume, but I imagined the special quality that, in taking them, she would…
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Atomic Habits – James Clear
A new habit should not feel like a challenge. The actions that follow can be challenging, but the first two minutes should be easy. What you want is a “gateway habit” that naturally leads you down a productive path.
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Made You Think – Homo Deus
There are ways you can predict the future – human behavior and psychology, but you can’t predict technology and information.
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Made You Think – The Qur’an
In the name of God, the Lord of Mercy, the Giver of Mercy Say, ‘He is God the One, God the eternal. He begot no one nor was He begotten. No one is comparable to Him.
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Critique of Religious Belief – Karl Marx
Excerpt from “Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right” The basis of irreligious criticism is this: man makes religion; religion does not make man. Religion is indeed man’s self consciousness and self-awareness so long as he has not found himself or has lost himself…
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Homo Deus – Yuval Harari
Other highlights: Highlights from Homo Deus The New Human Agenda Humans are (or were) largely concerned about three things particularly: famine, plague and war. “For generation after generation humans have prayed to every god, angel and saint, and have invented countless…
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Highlights from Homo Deus
While the attempt to upgrade humans into gods takes its logical conclusion, it simultaneously exposes humanism’s inherent flaws. If you start with a flawed ideal, you often appreciate it’s defects only when the ideal is close to realization.
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How To Take Smart Notes – Sonke Ahrens
“Notes should no longer be reminders of thoughts or ideas, but should contain the actual thought or idea in written form.” A note is only as valuable as its context – its network of associations, relationships and connections to other…