Category: 6. 🎮🧠🖥🏀
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Understanding Comics
I finished the book “Understanding Comics” by Scott McCloud. It was written in the mid 90s. I already miss the book. The author helped me understand why I felt the way I felt while reading comics- how time transpired, how emotions manifested, how actions were imagined …. He also contrasted the comics between the east…
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FOBL circa Jan 2021
Fear of Being Late. There are three things that would make me anxious. Crypto, specifically being late in social coins such as Roll for my creative endeavours. Clubhouse, or specifically being late in the evolution of creative audio Pseudonymity on blockchain. People say don’t worry about being late. Just have good content. I know. But…
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Year 2020, in #Fail
I attempted many things, and most of them ended in … failures. Yea I can say I learned from them, but to me, the best way to salvage those lost time is to muse about them. 1. Journaling Gosh I tried so many times- morning journals, dusk journals, bullet journals, 5 minute journals, 5 year…
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Year 2020, in Podcasts
Summary: Last year podcasts opened doors to me. I got deeper into meditation, spirituality, and language. They gave me new tools to live life, and then, to cope with 2020. The takeaway from all the top podcasts in 2020 was “inevitability.” History is repeating itself. This saying is glib, but it is true, and very…
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Backpack Buying 🎒
I spent months trying to look for a new backpack. My old Fjallraven was destroyed. There were two big holes in the bottom of the computer compartment. One of them was repaired and then broke again. Zippers were coming off. The bag was exceptional in terms of usability, weight, and capacity. I liked the clamshell…
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What’s Keeping Me Up At Night 😨
The 2020 election did not resolve this crisis of legitimacy. It found two Americas, very evenly divided, and at war with one another. Andrew Sullivan Our viewpoints. My wife’s and mine. The world is polarised. But I am not sure if she and I would agree on this. We are more susceptible to influence than…
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Endless Scroll
I flick two fingerstweets and tweets they scroll and scroll …I flick two fingers
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The Journey of Learning Colemak Keyboard Layout
In summary, it was a change driven by the ego (I am special- I type with the most efficient keyboard layout), and adopting this alternative keyboard layout has some benefits that don’t outweigh the real life inconveniences. I decided to switch to typing using the Colemak keyboard layout from the more common QWERTY keyboard. The…
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TikTok the Tipping Point
(Inspired by Ben Thompson, a tech writer, who wrote about US potentially banning TikTok) The Watershed I have worked and lived in China since the mid 90s. In the 90s, things were basic- Bus rides costed a few cents, there were no taxis, and plumbing was not a national priority. The 2000s were a watershed…