Hi! I work in consulting, but beyond that, I’m a designer, writer, and artist. I find the most joy in learning about interesting concepts that allow me to have a more fulfilling experience of existing in this world. I love contemplating fate, eternity, love, and loss.
book recommendations
- To learn how to love myself
- The Courage to Be Disliked: helped me undo some of my stubborn beliefs and view life as a series of moments with no pressure of an end goal
- To learn how to love another with my whole being
- Letters to a Young Poet: poetic
- All About Love: easy to digest
- In Praise of Love & The Agony of Eros: philosophical
- To learn stillness
- The Dao De Jing 道德經: the art of acting without expectations
- What the Buddha Taught: you don’t have to be Buddhist to benefit from these teachings if you approach the religious terms as metaphors used to describe the indescribable experience of being
- To see the beauty in the mundane
- The Count of Monte Cristo: what a journey!
- Letters to a Young Poet: there is beauty in everything, says Rilke
- Border State: dense but beautiful prose, an amazing experience if you like visual and visceral imagery
- Too Loud a Solitude
- To understand the pain of others
- To make sense of life
- To become a more proactive person
hobby info dump
- My favorite art mediums right now are oil pastel, gouache, and digital painting
on personal information management
philosophy
- Reduce friction. Find interface that works for you. Principal is the same, offloading thoughts to create more space for being present.
- Zeigarnik effect - outstanding tasks gnaw at us, reduce unconscious stress or anxiety
- Capturing moments and feelings because I’m sentimental
- I treat time like money and “budget” it accordingly, but I make sure to be flexible with it because there’s value in just living life leisurely
- Slow living mentality
- I’m pretty gentle with myself when it comes to productivity despite the amount of effort I put into organizing my life
- Minimize distractions/junk spending so I have more time to do what I actually enjoy doing
system
Disclaimer
I’m pretty sure I’m high-functioning neurodivergent, so I don’t really get things done unless I’m A. super obsessed B. obsessively tracking personal data. I also find joy in creating and refining documentation.
Also, to me, being organized productivity, I like being able to reflect on previous moments, too, by documenting them.
- TickTick for to do list, daily planning, time blocking, habit tracking, and focus timers
- Apple Calendar for logging events and appointments
- Obsidian as my second brain (I also edit this garden with it)
- Paper journal for processing thoughts and feelings