Expounding the results of my shower thoughts: “how exactly do I learn things that I don’t know that I don’t know most effectively?” — First, WHY? Why would anyone want to learn things that they don’t know that they don’t know? Here’s my take. Over the past 2 years, I’ve amped up how much I read, how much I listen to podcast, and recently how much I talk to people that I don’t know at a…

Plus a total of 20 affirmations to exemplify these themes! 🚀 — If you actively try to better yourself everyday and learn to become a better version of yourself, sooner or later you’ll learn about affirmations. If you jump on the wagon of affirmations, initially they feel silly, but over time you start to embody these affirmations in your daily life. What Are Affirmations? Affirmations…

A different way to think of diseases, and how Software Engineering and genetics have a lot in common. — This post is part of a series I will be making about the book The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Check the end of this post for a summary of the book. I want to start this series with an illustration of how genes and genetics work. While I have a…

So you can become more authentic and confident — Consider for a minute, why do people use fillers? What’s there to fill?

Questions from reading The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee — I am in the process of reading The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee, and I keep finding super insightful information about the process of life and biology. In my experience, biology is one of these fields (maybe another being Math) where depending on how you were originally introduced to it, you…

Many of which would apply to anyone who uses a computer — Let’s just dive straight into it! 1. Shortcuts If there’s anything that SCREAMS productivity like nothing else, it’s shortcuts. With that said, just learning all the shortcuts isn’t the best strategy here. Instead, there’s this concept called the “80/20 rule” which I recommend applying to shortcuts. The 80/20 rule says that roughly…

A review of the book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb begins a greek story that recalls an encounter where a king, Croesus, is interacting with a Greek legislator, Solon. Croesus at the time was loaded rich 🤑💵💰, but despite Croesus’ wealth, the legislator Solon wasn’t impressed. That annoyed him and prompted him to ask…

That is, if you want the world to be a “better” place — If you’ve watched Spiderman, you would have heard the quote “with great power comes great responsibility”. The last time I heard this was in Spiderman: No Way Home, which — mini spoiler alerts — I thought was kind of cheesy and disingenuous in the context of this Spiderman movie (because…

Investing, from the perspective of someone who is still in the journey. — Beginner level courses attach a “101” to their names, but I wanted to go before the “beginner” level—and that’s why it’s titled “001”. …