Discovered the concept of Research-driven art today and I love it. Going to explore it as much as I can. Becoming a research-driven artist has a nice sound to it : )

I went through my /archives to go through everything I wrote in 2016 and 2017 and I'm amazed. 2016 was a very rough year for me. The month of July most especially. I gave no accounts of the painful events of both 2016 and 2017. In my last day of the year review, you'd think the year was so amazing. It was infact not.

But I put it together and channeled my energy into blogging, photography and fashion. I guess it's because I did most of my personal writing in a diary and funny how I have no idea where the diary is. I'll try to write and capture my feelings more digitally using mediums like this garden that can easily be moved around.

Apparently, the feeling I couldn't quite place few days back is called being in a state of "Languish".

Definition: A state of stagnation and dissatisfaction; feeling unsettled, restless, and unfulfilled despite not being in crisis.

Coined in a broader sense by sociologist Corey Keyes and popularized again during the pandemic, languishing sits between flourishing and depression — a kind of emotional limbo.

It’s the feeling of “I’m not doing badly, but I’m also not thriving,” often paired with the sense that you should be doing more or could be doing better.

This rightly described how I was feeling in the moment.

'Personal Abstractions' This is a way one can learn things in a way that benefits them and helps them learn better.

Now this is my own way of personal abstraction; read -> re-write what I've read in my own word. Connect what I read with something else I had read somewhere.

I am really grateful that I was able to resolve the hydration problem with this website. I was super irritated during the few weeks where I didn't know what was causing the issue. Happy that phase is now over.

I have an idea for an art project. I've been fingering the idea of doing something fun and creative and I thought of something.

The idea of keeping a physocal zettelkasten slip box of common place items actually interests me so I thought of getting a few art materials to make my on note card and box.

Tools:

• a zig-zag scissors: this will be used on 2 opposite sides of the paper.
• water color: to add different mixed color paintings to each card.
• rulers: to draw lines that meet on the card to form a rectangle/box.
• perfurator punch: to create holes on each card that I can then use to rope all cards together so none goes missing.
• Paper: Don't know

While reading 'Building a Second Brain' by Tiago Forte I came across this page that spoke about the "Twelve Favorite Problems" and I immediately got a pen and paper to jot mine down.

• How can I write better?
• What can I do to speak better?
• How can I improve the quality of my life?
• How can I keep better relationships with friends?
• How can I better manage my time to become more productive?
• How can I improve my relationship with God?
• How can I become more knowledgeable in my field?
• What can I do to make eating healthier easier?
• What can I do to get a job, keep a job, stay gainfully employed and prepared for the rainy day?
• How can I make better life decisions?

Time is a currency. We have 24 hours = 1140 minutes in a day. There's just a lot to do and poor time management means waste of currency that you'll never get back. Unlike money that you can make back even if you spend it all, you can't make back time. Once it's gone, it's gone.

Hobbies I wish to have:

• Be really good at 1 sport
• Be a good Reader
• Be exceptional at Writing
• Be good at Photography (not great)
• Learn to play a Musical Instrument

I just figured these should be part of my /wants page.

Sometimes I feel like I am a reincarnation of another being. There are certain occurrences that make think and feel this way. I wake up from my sleep and it immediately feels like there is something very important I am forgetting. I have had this feeling one too many times. I am never able to place my hand on what it is I am actually forgetting.

On some occasions, I feel angry because it feels like there's something I lost and if I don't remember what it is, I end up losing it forever.

Another feeling is the feeling of insufficiency... I doubt this is the right word to use at the moment. The feeling where I know I should be doing way more than I'm currently doing. I have no idea about what I should be doing but the fact that I am not doing makes me feel inadequate. Still not sure if inadequate is the word, let's use both as a placeholder for now.

I'm starting over!

In my pursuit of knowledge, intellect and good writing skills, I am challenging myself to start over from a clean slate. I just archived all my writings and notes and I'll start writing new topics all over. All posts are still available but in a separate folder/page called /archives

I have over 30 topics I wish to write on and I will not be using AI to write or proofread. I'll leave that up to my readers and my future self.

I think I need logging prompts for my daily logs. Although thuis might make all my logs seem like a question and answer, it'll help me articulate better. Maybe I'll have several propmts to choose from, and I'll answe only 3 out of the list so that each day can be different.

I just read through some of my micro-blog (seedlings) entries. A few of them are good enough to be notes (buddings). I will move them to notes and do little touch up on them. Then as time goes on, I will make them into full essays when I have built on the idea properly to be evergreen.

"The faintest pen is better than the sharpest mind." This chinese proverb came to mind now after I just forgot sometihing importatnt that I wanted to type. Anyway I really love my new footer design.

A lot of people enjoy reading ManuelMonroe's post, maybe because he is popular for something that I know not of but I will read his works more to find out why people enjoy him.

Connecting the different things you read and learn together, this is based off the fact that no idea is an isolation. Everything we learn is in one way or another connected. You really just have to find the connections. You call this - Reading Networks

This is how I read and this is how I work. Why read one book at a time? Why work on only one project at a time.

Reading 2-3 books together and making connections binding what you learn together.

Building 3-4 projects at a time, when you get bored or tired of one, you hop unto the other.

Yesterday I read a book that taught me project hopping, basically giving name to something I already do but thought was bad (Steal Like an Artist)

Today I read an essay called on building knowledge networks through wandering that taught me co-reading, giving name to something I already do.

I somehow connected both ideas to form my own personal abstraction.

My current open books: Feel-Good Productivity Atomic habits Ikigai Let Me Reintroduce Myself

A method of reading that can help you build better Reading networks is the Blank Sheet method.

• This requires that before you start reading a book, you get a blank sheet & write down what you already know about the topic, idea or message the book is trying to pass.
• After a reading session, you add new notes or ideas to the sheet or make corrections to what you already knew with a different color pen.
• Before you start another session, you review the sheet.

How does this help build better reading networks?

• You get to think about the subject indepthly to get out prior knowledge on paper. When you take notes after reading sessions, it helps you to add to the knowledge that you already have, make corrections to notions that need to be corrected and then you start connecting ideas what you're reading with something else you might have read.

Read: https://fs.blog/blank-sheet/

Good bye Cursor, the evil you've done is enough. Am I the only one whose mac what freaking hot and singing song when they used cursor? I didn't even clock it until I didn't use it for a month. The one month I actually used it was hell for me. Damn!

Imagine when you finish reading a book and there's a page the writer dedicates to other books that you can read when you're done with theirs. These books can be books related to what they have written, books that inspired them in one way or another to write the book you just read. Now you'll have a list of books to read that are somewhat related to the one you just read, something like what Pinterest does when you click on an image, it shows you many other images that relate or look like the one you clicked on. Epic yeah?

A book that's not a dead end.

Perpelexity is one AI product I will consider paying a yearly fee for. It has made searching the internet super easy and I didn't know I loved it until I did. I literally don't need google for jack except small searching tasks to avoid using up my daily quota on Perplexity.