Essays

Fitness
Custom workout program design and tracking app
I’ve worked on this app for myself over a few days. It is a work in progress and good enough that I decided to share it because someone might find it interesting or inspiring. The…
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Managing status
As the prefrontal cortex grows with us, we increasingly become concerned with managing social status among our peers and humanity in general. Throughout adulthood, managing status…
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What do i know?
We move through the day with many elements inadvertently affecting us—from the food we ate or didn’t eat, to all the limiting beliefs accumulated over a lifetime from all sorts of…
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Formidable people
In a landmark essay, Paul Graham of Y Combinator defined a formidable (startup) founder as “one who seems like they’ll get what they want, regardless of whatever obstacles are in…
Business
How to Hide Sensitive Data in Notion Databases (Property Access Rules)
Collaborative workspaces often need restricted access—different access for different groups or individuals. Not just at a page or database level (see page-level access), but also…
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On sociality
If you observe ants, you will notice how they often bump into each other for a second or more to detect whether they are from the same group and exchange signals. For example,…
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Caring and beyond
In teenage years, those who care least acquire the most admiration from peers. That admiration—and the seeming lack of care itself—are rather unstable and inauthentic most of the…
Fitness
Nutrition Considerations & Experiments
Every day, you eat something, and it becomes part of you in some way. Over years, you take on a certain bodily and psychological organization and shape that are in part affected…
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3 metamorphoses
In a passage from “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, Nietzsche outlines three metamorphoses of the spirit. The spirit is the essence of the human. In the first stage, the spirit is a…
Business
AI Agents in Notion, n8n, Make - Considerations and Differences
Building custom AI agents that perform certain tasks on demand or on a schedule is possible across many platforms. Some of the most prominent ones include Notion, n8n, and Make.…
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Swaying mind
The stressed elephant sways side to side. Similarly, the stressed human sways thought to thought, immersed in thoughts. Yet thoughts are not reality itself, and we can practice…
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Of all the possible things you could do, how do you decide what to do?
How you do anything matters more than what you do. When you pay attention to the how, you can excel at whatever you do. Take hospitality, for example, as illustrated by Will…

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