It's been challenging for me to put a neat bow on 2025. I did so much this year that I'm proud of. None of which were the goals I wrote down for myself at the beginning of the year though! It's hard to reconcile these two realities in my head. Planning for the next year … Continue reading 2025 in review
This is part two of a series of posts wherein I try to explore the meaning of one's identity and answer the question "Who am I?". By the third and final post, I'm hoping to finally give an answer. I'm a little concerned however, because I find myself no closer to the answer than I … Continue reading identity part 2
I used to believe that there are parts of you that the world will never see. I think this is still technically true, but it doesn't have to be. All those years ago, I also believed it was almost impossible to be truly understood by another person. This I also think doesn't have to be … Continue reading communication
It's incredible how beholden I am to the aspirations I had when I was a teenager. Sometimes I struggle to accept that version of myself as anything but a harsh critic. Looking at me today, I've hardly accomplished any of the things seventeen year old me wanted to do. But above all else, I've grown … Continue reading normally
In 2017, I wrote an impassioned piece on modern UIs after roughly week 1 of the HCI course I took during that semester of my undergrad. In it, I coined the term the 'fulfilment gap', which more or less simplified the ideas presented in Don Norman's The Design of Everyday Things. Here, I'd like to … Continue reading The Fulfilment Gap
Most of our life is spent waiting for the next thing to happen. Your next vacation, the work waiting for you on Monday, that movie you'll be watching on Saturday. Right down to the grocery run that's next on your list of things to do this week. By now, you're surely nodding sagely. But what … Continue reading In-between times
I think we can all agree that nothing lasts forever. You say this to a friend and they'll nod thoughtfully. But we still spend so much of our lives chasing after a never-ending series of goals. But aren't they impermanent too? For example, I plan on running in a marathon this year. That's about as … Continue reading Moving targets
To answer the question of "how do you define yourself?" I published this post. By the time we reached the end, I still couldn't produce an answer. And for the better part of the past 2 years, I've had a follow-up post swirling around in my head. While I haven't fully fleshed out what I … Continue reading identity part 1.5
There is a class of life problems that I call insurmountable. They are the things that happen in your life that fill you with dread just thinking about. Your first instinct is avoidance, so you're not actually sure what a solution even looks like. These shouldn't be confused with "Hard" life problems. Hard problems are … Continue reading Hard vs Insurmountable Life Problems
I keep a tight ship in my life. Calendars, agendas and to-do lists. All optimized through years of trial and error. So I know better than anyone else that any productivity system is only as good as your worst day. That however, is a non-statement. You're not going to be "productive" on your bad days. … Continue reading fighting off entropy
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