my notes, ramblings, and observations on life
A mindset I've struggled with since college is that if I'm not being productive then I'm wasting my time. I thought that mindset would go away once I graduated but I feel like it has made a comeback, especially with the rise of AI in our everyday lives and supposedly making us a lot more productive. Sometimes when I'm chilling around and relaxing, I randomly get a thought that I'm wasting my time…
I've been playing a good amount of tennis since I started taking lessons again in February. I've had the opportunity to play points and rallies against a lot of people and one thing I've been trying to improve on is hitting winners. Or better yet, when not to hit them. In tennis, a winner is essentially a shot that wins a player the point; the other player can't return it. Winners can come in…
It's been a minute since I've made an entry here. That isn't due to lack of stuff happening; if anything it feels like quite the opposite. Oddly enough with all the things keeping me busy recently, it feels like I haven't had much to say. When life keeps me busy, I have a hard time slowing down and processing everything in my surroundings. As of an hour-ish ago with the 2026 Winter Olympics…
Today I ran my first 'official' 5K! I say 'official' in quotes because I had run a few 5Ks in training up to this point and this was the first 'official' 5K event I've participated in. I don't think it'll be the last 5K I participate in either because it ended up being a lot of fun. I started running back in September once my friend brought up the idea of me joining them for a 5K and this was the…
The last book I read in 2025 was 'You Should Quit Reddit' by Jacob Desforges and one of the first books I read this year was 'Digital Minimalism' by Cal Newport. A big thing both books pointed out to me was that a lot of social media sites have gotten REALLY good at keeping our attention and how much of a grip social media has on many of us. Smartphones also play a big part in this because they…
Lately, I've been feeling overwhelmed. I took some time off work over the holidays and now that the new year has started and everything else is starting back up again, I think I'm just feeling overwhelmed by it all. I had an amazing time decompressing over my time off; spent a lot of time with friends and family, spent a lot of time on my hobbies, started this blog, so many good things that are…
One of my favorite songs by The Strokes is called "Ode to the Mets" . According to an article by Sports Illustrated , drummer Fabrizio Moretti mentioned that the Mets and the song evoke "something that you set your heart to and that you love unconditionally but that continues to disappoint you". That is precisely what I'm feeling as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers wrap up their 2025 season , starting the…
Testing, testing... Is this thing on..? In terms of tech, this whole blog is held together by the most unstable CSS/HTML/NJK I've ever written but you know what, nothing like figuring stuff out as you go! This blog post itself is a markdown file and the HTML post is made using Eleventy , a static site generator (at least that's how I think it works). I don't need anything fancy/complicated for…