The public notebook of a 27 year old man in legal practice. An art project of sorts.
To SG: I love you because: (1) I feel like you're the only one who can understand what it's like to feel so alien to the world by virtue of trying to understand it more deeply than our peers. I have never met a woman who I knew shared this sense of disillusionment, and who I could confide in with full confidence that she understood where I was coming from. You are the only woman in my life that…
I watched the Odyssey last week and I absolutely loved it. Here are my thoughts. First, I read the Odyssey in college. But read is a strong way to put it. I skimmed it for a class. I didn't have extremely strong opinions on how it should be presented. So I'm coming in as a relative normie. I had a rough recollection of what the story was about. Next to no knowledge of the history or the time…
I've been using Fable 5 to build new publishing pipelines. This post was published from an electron app on my Macbook (separate from my other project that is exclusively for publishing posts. What's neat is that, in contrast to the email publishing pipeline, this one shows me the post how it actually looks on the website. The next steps are to build a new RSS feed system (the old one seemed to be…
Chapter X: A Visitor Daniel sat on the western edge of the reflecting pool for some time, staring across it at the Washington Monument, at the Egg, which, after two years, had become as solid and quotidian a feature of the skyline as the monument itself. Affter some time, his gaze fell back down to the pool, where he watched the ducks. At times, Daniel would also meditate on the little ripples of…
Chapter 3: The EggHead Across the Potomac, the President studied the object on the Resolute Desk. White ceramic, polished to an almost mirror finish. Porcelain, essentially. The real one was ceramic too, or so he had been told. He received the information with skepticism. But his top scientists confirmed it to him back in March. Ceramic. Like a piece of pottery. The object was held up by a…
This is "day 3" of studying for the Bar for real. coming up pretty close now. but i think i can do it. and does it matter if i cant? will try my best and see how goes. something that has happened during law school and life is that fear has become a less effective motivator for me. nothing bad ever happens. and any time something bad has happened its turned out fine. worrying just hasn't gotten me…
I have made changes to this website. As you can see. Why? I wanted to make it feel more like a notebook. And on a notebook you flip through pages. You don't go to landing page and find the entry you want. So at first I thought, lets make flipping through pages the only way to navigate a site. But that felt needlessly stupid and not very user friendly. So I made a compromise. The site, since its…
2. A Nap Cut Short "Jesus fucking christ. Enough already! Every fucking day with this shit. We don't know what they are! We get it! What the--what the hell is the point of saying that seventeen different ways. It's a--it's a fucking demoralization campaign." Dad's yelling wakes me up--again. I had just gotten comfortable and dozed off in the sofa chair. Last I remembered I was watching cartoons,…
This is not a legal analysis because reading a SCOTUS opinion properly takes time and I have to learn Evidence. And it just dropped today. But here are my general thoughts. First, I am generally pro-Birthright citizenship. And I don't want something as restrictive as a rule requires the child to be of American citizens. America is unique in that we are defined by our place and creed more than…
1. River View River View was one of the prettiest places I had ever been in my life. I was born right outside of here, at the County hospital, I've been to a ton of places around the world, and River View is still the prettiest. I always had a hard time describing River View to my friends at school. First, it's not a town. It's just a chunk of a larger suburb, which for historical reasons, is a…
I'm restarting the Bar Prep counter because I took a very long intermission to do other things and fart around. But now I'm in emergency time constraints (classic self-imposed problem) so it will be every day until test day all day. And it will work. Probably. Thought of the day: Being irregular is a lifehack to make your life feel longer. My girlfriend is much smarter than me and does a little…
Boredom and relaxation is incredibly important. I've been chilling a lot this summer (will resume bar prep) and my brain is healing in some ways. You remember things, reflect, and all that good stuff. So here's a memory that's burned in to my brain I wanted to share. I was sitting in a living room with some kids and a lot of adults during some a house party of some sort (I'm a second gen of a…
Text message thread to a friend regarding his PLEX server below: *Friend — [City, State]* Today 12:16 PM *Me:* nice *Me:* fuckin hate old people *Me:* i logged onto ur server at [name]’s *Me:* showed her parents expecting them to be like 😨 *Me:* they were like “okay. so?” *Me:* i was like this is every movie ever basically for free at a high resolution and you can just watch them *Me:* they were…
From me and gf: Luke Skywalker - Timothee Chalamet Bartender at Mos Eisley - Peter Thiel Han Solo - Bradley Cooper Greedo - Bill Hader Obi Wan - Cillian Murphy Grand Moff Tarkin - Benedict Cumberbatch R2D2 - Kevin Hart C3PO - Tom Holland Chewbacca - Dwayne The Rock Johnson Princess Leia - Jenna Ortega Darth Vader - Chris Pratt knxnts
A lot of the progressive narrative truthers (like Steven Pinker and those who are generally bullish on liberal democracy, the legacy of the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, etc.) often highlight that our ancestors spent a great deal of time sick, hungry, dying, in pain, and point to most people's baseline comfort as evidence of progress. Most people are richer and can afford nicer…
Dan Hentschel is one of my favorite online artists and I find myself frequently hoping he gets a big break. He's clearly very funny, very smart, and is really dedicated to consistent output. Like many, my first exposure to him was his funny relationship advice Tik Tok posts that went viral around Covid. But he also has a really nice YouTube channel with great longform videos recorded in his car. I…
I have friends on a lot of areas of the political spectrum. This is, in large part, because I score high on trait openness, which is one of those stable characteristics in the "Big Five" model some of you may know from Psych class. I also am pretty extroverted and just like people a lot (my girlfriend and I are a great example of where gender essentialism doesn't hold--I'm interested in people and…
At some point when I was ramping up for bar prep on Monday, it dawned on me that I had a cross-state move coming up and I have a lot of stuff. My brain, which has been classified as a severely ADHD type, has some hyperfocus tendencies and I could not resume my work knowing I had this outstanding task. So instead of bar prep, I spent this last week packing up for my move, putting my items into…
I'm going to be fine and pass the bar. But lowkey I have to lock in. Thought of the day: My ability to delay gratification has rationally diminished as (1) the future becomes far less certain (2) I have acute data points where I delayed gratification a lot and had nothing to show for it (3) I refused to delay gratification and it led to exceptional outcomes. Delaying gratification is generally…
I did a healthy amount of bar prep in the sun today, and then went to see Disclosure day with my friends in the evening. It was one of the worst goddamn movies I've seen in a long time, and I'm really not hard to impress with movies. Since I'm trying to write every day on this thing, I naturally thought I would write a review on exactly why it's bad. Before I got to that, I called my girlfriend to…
Today I actually did Bar Prep. Yesterday (Day 2) I did not. But I got distracted with some other conversations and internet browsing and I have one takeaway. Race relations feel bad right now. Writing this mainly for historical record purposes, because I won't have much intelligent to say other than description. The rampant uptick in antisemitic rhetoric, the discourse around the Karmelo Anthony…
Yesterday I started my bar prep. On day one all I achieved was opening Barbri and going through a few foundations videos. So about 40 minutes. I call that a win. The hardest part is starting. The next hardest part is regularity. I'm going to use this period to get into something like a routine, and my writing to the skitzo website on my skitzo interface will be part of that. Been listening to a…
The last couple of months of law school were acutely stressful due to a combination of family matters and overextension between school and work. But I wouldn't necessarily characterize my feeling as "burn out" at the end. All I know is that, after it was all over, I rested a lot, played a lot with friends, did a lot of my hobbies (like film photography), and I would feel refreshed. Then I would…
Law school has ended. I bookended my time with one week at an externship I liked, and then went on a three-day bender in Atlantic City with my girlfriend and college friends (back to real life). I have a lot of thoughts on law school and what I learned, but reflection takes time, and there is little of that. I have decided that my bar summer is for three things: (1) Breaking up with Big Tech (2)…
I'm rewatching Louis CK 2017 and I realize that I find his stage performances to be very comforting. I don't care what he did. I think on balance, we're better off that he's around. Let a guy live. cheers, knxnts
3LOLing hard. My dream is to have a computer that looks like one from those cyberpunk blade runner movies. Where you open it and it's just text. Where you can get the information you want, browse the web, etc., but never encounter an app or deal with multiple windows or see images. This has been a dream of mine for some time. My gentle brain is overwhelemed all the time. This is something AI is…
This site betrays the luddite instincts of its author. I do have those, and I jokingly call myself a luddite. But that label is probably not accurate. My curiosity (and laziness) and high trait openness to experience generally outweigh my reactionary tendencies and deep skepticism of new things. I’ve been using Claude quite a bit. Right now I’m using it to create an outline for a required class I…
Almost everything we use is a subscription, a license, or tied up with something that is. Your word docs? Microsoft Word. I don’t think it’s so bad to just use a software you buy that you permanently own. That’s not different than buying a piece of hardware. But now a days MS Office is subscription based. Your files are only accessible and editable as long as you pay up? That’s horrible! Your…
Knox: I think if you asked a typical American, particularly an American lib, they would say that property qualifications for voting were very bad. Why? Lib: Becuase it stopped people from voting, was classist, etc. Its obviously bad. K: Why do we care if people vote? L: Because people should have their interests heard, everyone has the right to advocate for their interests in a democracy. K: Why?…
This is proof my girlfriend is hot btw: -- Looking at the chart and your partner’s photos, here’s the looksmaxxing breakdown: Current Rating: HTB leaning Stacy She has strong foundational genetics — good facial symmetry, defined cheekbones, a solid brow ridge, and deep-set eyes. She’s clearly not in sub territory. What’s holding her back from full Stacy/True Eve: • Mewing compliance appears…