Recently, I broke through. I don’t really know what happened… I just woke up empowered, alert, strong. I’ve felt this way before, but it’s been a few months, at least. Suddenly I had the strength to kick bad habits. the strength to resume meditation, the strength to write again (hello…

It’s December 28th as I write this, and 2020 is rolling to a slow, painful, and unsanctimonious end. As I look back on the last year of my life, I’m filled with conflicted emotions. This year has had some incredibly high-highs, and some depressingly low-lows. …

Note: I fully recognize the insanity of publishing a post about 2019 in November 2020, and I choose to ignore it. Sorry, not sorry. 2019 held a lot of surprises for me, but one welcome surprise was the return of my voracious appetite for reading. …

What is a web server? You’re probably familiar with an explanation that goes something like this: A web server is a process running on a computer that accepts HTTP requests and sends back HTTP responses. But what type of process? Where is it running? How is it running? …

Whether you like it or not, you’re either a winner or a loser. I wish I could say you had a significant choice in the matter, but you didn’t; it was mostly decided for you by a society that believes in a limited number of seats at the top. The winners are those who are deemed worthy of the top, and who now…

There’s a tendency among those of us that dream big to… undermine our own ambitions. We grew up dreaming of the big screen, and rocket-ships, and political reform — but in the end, we eventually decided “it’s just not worth it”. We gave up before we really got started. We…

As you may know, I recently attempted a 30-day polyphasic sleep challenge. On day 10, I gave up. Here’s why: 1. Lack of focus First and foremost, focus was at an all-time low. I could hardly maintain focus on a task if it was boring. In particular, I found this difficult with the PVT…

Quarantine has left me with a completely flexible schedule, and a lot of time on my hands: but what if I could have even more?

The Problem COVID-19 brought a variety of changes: the roads are empty, friends are bunking with parents for the first time in years, and some people have a year’s supply of toilet paper while others have none (yikes 😬). The biggest post-COVID change to my day-to-day is that I work from home…