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Overflowing with thoughts; at a loss for words Home 🌙 Overflowing with thoughts; at a loss for words This is the first of hopefully multiple posts describing how I’ve experienced my brain change throughout my late twenties. Around the time I turned 26, I started to feel like I was getting dumber. Needless to say, this precipitated many a panicked Google search about “mid 20s declining…
Look mom I have a blog now Home 🌙 Look mom I have a blog now On 19 June , 2024 I tweeted : I swear to you all that by the end of today, I'll have a blog. I will not be waylaid by styling, or building Hakyll in a Nix environment on Apple Silicon, or writing my own static site generator. I will use Adobe Dreamweaver if I have to. Cyberbully me if I don't follow through This website represents my…
The unreasonable effectiveness of chaotic knowledge acquisition Home 🌙 The unreasonable effectiveness of chaotic knowledge acquisition I used to conceptualize learning as a rigid progression from inchoate concepts floating around in my head (visual: crazy heap indirection) to some deeper understanding, organized and schematized with all my other knowledge (visual: neat C-style enum…