Thoughts

The influence Ray Dalio's Principles has made on my decision-making and has helped me adapt, grow, and achieve goals

Fueling my imagination through the philosophy of David Hume.

Streamline decision-making by embracing the 'hell yes or no' mindset. This intuitive approach simplifies choices, cuts through overthinking, and promotes clarity and authenticity. Trusting your gut fosters decisive action, reduces stress, and leads to more meaningful outcomes.

A brief reflection on hitting a milestone of writing 100 posts on this website.

My day-to-day work is rooted in the technical practices of engineering and mathematics. Neither exudes creativity on the surface, but they also aren't completely void of it either. Among many things, there is creativity found in both practices through the problem-solving and decision-making processes. Creative, but limited as outputs are naturally restrained to objectives rather than being free for expression. Expression is what generally comes to mind when someone thinks about creativity. It is..

Fight boredom and improve your well-being during isolation by staying productive!

New Year's resolutions are well-intended, but rarely accomplished. Every year we go through the process of picking a goal that we want to accomplish and tell ourselves that starting January 1st, we will become a new person. I wish life worked like that, but studies tell us that 80% of resolutions fail, and most by the middle of February. So this year, try something different and choose a theme, rather than a goal. Goals require a strict start date, end date, and a specific outcome. It requires..

I was a “B” student in school. I listened in class and put in enough effort to get the grades I needed, but I never put in the work outside of class to master the material and rise to the perfection of an “A” student. For a long time I felt the resentment to put in the effort was the result of the subject matter, but I recently experienced these feelings again and convinced me that there was a different reason all along. After closing out Synotate and feeling a bit burnt out from working on te..