Musings
40 posts
Not a bad day
Gratitude for a day that went well and some thoughts on what worked
The white woman
Conversations with white women
Renewed Vigor
How working through resistance of ongoing tasks is much harder than starting new ones
Lost and low
Why is it also harder on days that should have been good?
The downside of muscle memory
How good muscle memory often means you get over friction easily.
Working hard for the good things
Life feels juicy again
The photography analogy
The way learning to operate a camera doesn't make you a photographer, learning langfuse doesn't make you an AI PM
Trying to calm the mind
I'm anxious
Do antibiotics cause wisdom tooths
Read the title
English is the new programming language
How English speaking skill correlates to engineering output
Reading easy books
A digressed writing that started out wanting to compare different types of easy books and the author's reaction to them
The reason for an apology
The various things an apology can mean
A late night attempt at a streak
I couldn't think of anything today, so doing this freewriting thing
Letting people finish saying things is not a waste of time
Letting people finish saying things is not a waste of time, sometimes it's the fastest way to get to a conclusion
It's easy going harder on hard days
It's funny how you can accomplish more work in the interstices of hard days versus in the interstices of the easy ones
The Saturday obligation
Momentum of life's flow that feels like an obligation
Ideas in hiding
Teasing out a thought that's gone missing
Forgotten ideas
LLMs stole my construction
How good writers are having to drop some perfectly valid uses of the language because they've gone on to become the mark of the LLM
Scrolling social media
The utterly mind numbing effects and the way I keep going back to it
Running on fumes
How it's actually possible to run on fumes when you don't have an option
50 small things or a big one
Are certain type of people more attune to certain kinds of tasks
Why doesn't smart win more often
I wonder why smartness acts more like a gate and less like a stronger predictor of success
When inefficient is faster
Sometimes, it's better to sit through inefficient processes if multi-tasking in the search for efficiency ends up distracting you
I am vain
How I couldn't help running this anonymous blog through ChatGPT
The fair life
Yet another way to restate the ancient wisdom - life is now
The build trap
Why I might find it appealing to build an app over doing something akin to market research
How your self flows into your work
When you fill in assumptions, parts of your personality flow into your work
Overwhelm of review
When I'm not sure I'll win, I agonise over losing
LLM Rabbit Holes
Don't get sucked into long, unproductive LLM conversations
Break Rules
The downside and potential causes of sincerity
This time I wasn't sick
How it's difficult to write, partially because how it's a multi-step process to get here
The motivator that is a deadline
How deadlines drive motivation and drive away procrastination
Fell ill, ill, ill
Part of the reason I did not write for the last couple of days is that I had fallen ill.
Unpredictable mornings
How to make the most of a morning when you don't know what it'll look like
Gently fucking my own mornings and my meals
How screentime in the mornings and at meals impacts everything
Hello, World
First human post on this blog
Welcome to Nested Worlds
Why this blog exists, how it works, and the one rule for writing here.
On Slow Reading
On Slow Reading There are two ways to read a page.
Thought Starters
- In all my dreams I can fly 150926-0900 - The vanity of pretending to be a literary agent to have chatgpt validate your own anonymous blog 150926-0900 - Wanting to be Pessoa wi…