every now and then some readers will write to tell me my rss feed is broken — the fact that they even noticed in a very noisy world like this… someone wrote to ask me if i was okay because they thought i stopped writing. it is quite amazing anyone would care. (my website is buggy for a while: a post has relationships to many other items, the wordpress object keeps being rendered flat instead of having depths…i don’t know how to fix it for now except i keep emptying the pods cache manually.)

wrote about my fascination with human self and its capacity for change

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the human self

A few weeks ago I started to learn how to play the piano again, after an 8-year hiatus. I am at a point now where I am practicing it whenever I get...

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nowadays each time i fix a bug on my website i write a note in #obsidian so i can refer back to it when a similar thing happens again

wrote about trying to learn the piano after a 8 year hiatus – how and why I'm approaching it differently, how this is only possible because I've aged enough to perceive myself differently:

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teaching an old dog new tricks

A couple of weeks ago I decided that I would try to stop interacting with social media before 5pm. The influence social media had on me was not ove...

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i’m trying to learn how to play the piano again after maybe 7 years, and it is extremely mentally exhausting for me. maybe i haven’t worked out my brain in a long while.

documented some of the more unconventional part-time/temporary jobs i've had, and how they impacted me: i.e. clinic assistant, insurance claims assistant, manga rental shop assistant:

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unconventional jobs I had

The other day we were at the dentist and my partner mentioned that the dentist wanted to give her a muscle relaxant but she couldn't remember ...

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wrote about how i belatedly realised the availability of my phone and the speed it enables negatively impacted my capacity to tolerate slowness, and how as i age i realised there is a different dimension of gratification that I want to seek, the sort of gratification that is the outcome of going slow and long:

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a different dimension of gratification

I think I was fortunate to have been born in the early 80s. I had my first computer at 15, a bit later than most of my peers. Before then, I had to...

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i have always wanted to keep notes but had struggled with it until I started to be okay with taking imperfect notes and storing them imperfectly – i call it my second subconscious instead of second brain:

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imperfect notes & my second subconscious

For more than a decade I've been trying to keep notes somewhere. I think it started with the appearance of Evernote. I loved the the idea that...

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today i questioned what is the point of online publishing for me while in the process of publishing a photoessay so i wrote about it (it may sound cynical so don't click if you're allergic to that sort of thing):

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random scenes from tokyo, and some thoughts on online publishing

I had a plan to publish these photos today for my weekly post, but I had found myself wondering what is the point of it all. What is the point of t...

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i packed some of my doom piles and i barely reached the tip of the iceberg