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www.youtube.com/watch My brain is always running at 100km/h, so any time I see artists take their time to work on their art it’s this huge wake-up call about how making things actually takes time. And then I see this video where Fran Meneses dedicates time to practicing how to draw (even though she’s a great illustrator already!) it really shocks me. I’m impatient, okay? I’ll cycle through hundreds of project ideas, start maybe 10 of them, and finish none of them. ...

After 10 years of thinking about it (overthinking, really) I’ve finally started making a video for YouTube. As all “first” videos go, this one is about how it’s the first video I’m making. I hate that. But as much as videos about making videos absolutely GRIND MY GEARS, I need to get this navel-gazing bullshit out of the way before I can get to some of the actual topics I want to make videos about. ...

VERY good book. Just finished it today. Arguably even better than The Martian. DEFINITELY better than Artemis. Couldn’t put it down. Sucks because i had a sleepless night, but does go to show how awesome and captivating the story is.

If you get past the weird aesthetic choices (and BOY are they weird) and learn to enjoy them, then this is an amazing resource for understanding how sound mixing works (especially in the context of making music): www.youtube.com/watch

Whenever I finish a good book (it was Ready Player One this time), I find myself in a reading slump. So, I’m going to keep a list of resources to refer to when I’m looking for a new book to check out from the library. This article from the New York Times has a list of 22 of the funniest novels since Catch 22 (which I should probably finish at some point). ...

Just finished reading Essentialism by Greg McKeown. For me this was a very “front loaded” self-help book (one of my least favorite kinds). Most of the advice that the book has to offer is revealed in the introductory chapters. What fallows, then, is just a bunch of examples of how the advice can be applied and the different little tweaks you might need to make to your life to apply the practice of essentialism. ...

I was not excited when Andrew Huang announced that he would be writing a book. I’ve been online long enough to be weary of “books written by YouTubers”. But that was unfair of me. Andrew Huang has been a goldmine of awesome and entertaining videos, helpful and useful advice, as well as a very large discography interesting and groovy music. So, when a few excerpts started coming out and when Andrew made a few videos talking about some of the things he writes about in the book — I was sold. This was one of very few books that I pre-ordered. ...

I was sick the past week and that means that I was dehydrated. I usually don’t drink coffee when I’m dehydrated, so I had a week-long break. I still drank lots of tea, but the effect is different; we all know that. Anyway, yesterday I woke up feeling exhausted so I had a cheeky little cappucino with a tripple shot of espresso. Big mistake. Anxiety through the roof! I learned my lesson and just had a regular filter coffee. Anxiety still through the roof! Making coffee has been my equivalent of “morning meditation” for, like, almost three years now. I’m not quite sure how I’m going to handle it if I have to quit the daily ritual. So, yeah… I’m hoping that it’s just a small side-effect of being sick and that in a few days (maybe a week at most?) I’ll be able to go back to drinking coffee without dying of anxiety attacks any time I drink the brown dirt drink. ...

I generally only get my news from official resources or resources that have done so well with providing accurate information so consistently that I choose to trust them (though, with a grain of salt). One of those resources posted (this morning) that tonight there will likely be another attack with rockets from russia. I know that any forecast like this is essentially meaningless and has a 50/50 chance of being true or false. I know that no matter what, I still have to go on living my life, doing my silly little job, eating my silly little meals, etc. etc. etc. But Imma be real with you — it’s difficult to do all these things and expend any energy on them when you know that it is quite likely that you’re not going to get any good sleep tonight because the country that neighbors yours is a fucking imperialist cancer. And yet, here we are. ...

I follow these blogs! You might want to as well! At the very least, you should at least check them out. https://winnielim.org https://sanlive.com https://maya.land https://maggieappleton.com https://az.id.au https://www.sheafitz.com https://evy.garden/notebook/ https://satyrs.eu/garden/ https://mayaontheinter.net In the future I’ll categorize the blogs based on what they’re about. Right now there’s not enough of them to warrant that.