Random Walk
unsent messages. leftover attention.
another long one
Life Is a Multi-Task Learning Problem Without a Clear Reward
One reward was enough when the tasks were small. Life turned out to have many targets, each on its own clock, and they keep changing. Seeing it this way makes a lot of things clear. It doesn’t make life solvable, and maybe that’s the interesting part.
From first principles, getting luckier comes down to increasing the number of encounters.
Be Well. Be You.
AI gave us a better era — and a chance to ask better questions and reason.
Using AI lately — it fits my ADHD working style, and it also makes my impatience worse. 😅
You don’t always have to look up. Look ahead instead.
a longer one this time
Maybe AI Makes an Individual Life Feel Bigger
Some of the anxiety about AI is practical. Some of it, I suspect, is about ego. And underneath both, a quieter question I keep coming back to: what if I stopped measuring my life by how fast I can run, or how hard I am to catch?
Take care of yourself. Keep the focus on you — your own happiness, your own fulfillment, and the little bits of progress.
A light stroke of fate can change how you live. A different kind of experience might not be bad.
Not every day needs to be productive. Some days can simply be lived.
I picked up Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation again — a book I opened and closed for years. Some books ask you to think, and those are the ones you can’t really sit with when you’re too busy.
Sometimes we go so fast we forget why we set out.
Learning to let go of unrealistic expectations might also be a kind of growing up.
A lot of things don’t happen in one step. Keep working along the trajectory — that is progress too.