0660 – acknowledge the monkey-mind
This will be word vomit 0660 and I’m getting started on it on a Sunday morning at 1150am. Now this is starting to feel good.
0639 – beware articulate misdiagnoses and the illusion of knowledge
I want to reflect on an exchange of comments that I had on Hacker News. Here’s the context: Snap is about to IPO, and th
0519 – obliterate your subconscious taskmasters
Day 4 of the new year. Didn’t publish a word vomit yesterday. It’s interesting to think about the psychology and p
0492 – nothing lived ever goes to waste if you’re mindful and kind
I went to bed earlier than usual (which is probably the time I should actually be going to bed regularly, at around 10pm), and
0468 – boredom is a bug of the mind
(The following vomit gets a bit messy because I jump back and forth and repeat myself) I want to think and write about about b
0467 – past-induced glitchy limbo
I hold on to a lot of stuff from my past. I don’t think this is good for me. Examples? I don’t particularly hold o
0462 – beware grandiose proclamations
I have a few more minutes, I might as well try to hammer another one out. Let’s check my Trello / Evernote / Workflowy f
0454 – the echochamber is the siren
Almost two weeks ago, I voted for the first time, in Singapore’s general elections 2015. It was a pleasant and quick pro
0421 – beware false victory, and validation
I had an interesting thought this morning when I woke up. I published 4 word vomits yesterday, which is 4 times more than I’
0405 – dealing with slipping and with foggy black boxes
Had a couple of interesting conversations at work today that I want to explore a little more fully. The first is about what it
0400 – stop hoarding truth in boxes
As I woke up this morning and lounged in bed for a while, before going to the toilet and reading a book (currently re-reading:
0398 – beware of digression
Digression is fun Achieving your goals is more fun Do not digress at the expense of achieving your goals Alright, I’ve b
0397 – stop living life stressfully (the elephant can break free)
TLDR Collect desired end-states We are all elephants tied to posts Don’t waste time talking to other tied elephants; fre
0390 – my feelings are often wrong and unreliable
Recovering from my illness. I feel my mind returning. I have thoughts and questions to explore. I find myself thinking about t
0378 – stop describing problems without solving them
Over and over again I think it’s a good idea to revisit everything from first principles. Start from what you know is tr
0368 – ugh fields
It’s 3:25am and I should be asleep but I’m not. Me and my wife seem to be having this weird silly habit where we s
0341 – avoid “I’ll do it later”
I went to bed around 1120pm or so. I set two alarms- 600 and 710am. Didn’t hear the first one, woke up on the second one
0310 – stop kicking up sand
I would experience a certain exalted satisfaction if I finish another vomit tonight, because then I’d gone from 305 on m
0266 – beware the dark playground
(some repetition) Let’s zoom back out– the point of this vomit was to think and talk about games that allow me to have
0246 – reminder to focus on fundamentals after the feels
So those were some strong feels in the last post, and strong feels are good to have- at least some of the time, from time to t
0192 – “You’re only cheating yourself”
In an earlier word vomit- 0170 – questioning assumptions; what got you here won’t get you there, I talked about a quest
0085 – Keep the psychologically-insulated parasite at bay
Random thoughts are hard to come by these days but I just found myself thinking about language and social hierarchy, thanks to