👁Honed Perception Internal Graph Language for note-taking at the speed of thought This is a longform video about creating your own internal knowledge graph language for efficiency and keeping track of rabbit holes.
🎙This is Norm The Child in Me I was prompted by a recent tweet by Joao Mateus on the concept of playfulness and its association with age, in children. The definitions of curiosity are brought up. When we are older, we start to question ourselves, why is it that we Harbor such attributes? When. Currently, it is
💌Inner Transcript Inner Transcript #7: Audio Alexandria, Coincidental Death Inner Transcript #8, a newsletter by ThatsTheNorm
✉️Letters How to write letters to yourself I write my letters with a tinge of insanity, and that fits well with my character. If you're looking for a standard guide, this may not be the post for you. This is a twisted answer to the question, because there are some assumptions to confront before we begin. Something
💭Life-Tempering Letter to my Future Self My Dear Friend, How are you doing? Have you been dancing? Have you been embodying your WIldfire? I am aware, even now, that despite the treasures the world has to offer, you may arrive at them alone. They may call you mad for chasing after intangibles, the lost muses, the
🌏Podcasting Why I started podcasting I didn't really know much about podcasting until 2017. Before then, I thought it was just a YouTube show. I used to watch a ton of videos on YouTube (to be honest, I still do lol) and one of my favourite gaming channels at the time had their own video
🌏Career To Be Professionally Informal To be professionally informal is to maintain a sense of relatability with the audience while still talking about the various fields that we are interested in. Of course, with great deep dives, but what is an important distinction here is the [[Articulation]] of specific points. By going against the grain
👁Memory Featured The Fear of Forgetting To have a life without growing memory is to not be born. We abandon the years when we have grown. In turn we leave our past selves behind. My Dear Friend, I am afraid of forgetting my life. If yesterday was lost, forgotten, and the world had moved, friends have
👁Learning Exploring Aesthetics in Roam and Digital Note-taking My CSS Theme: Kajiya Kajiya is the word for blacksmith in Japanese. I based it on my analogies for writing and thinking. I don't take credit for the base theme as made by Abhay, I merely call it my theme as it's a combination of the colours that matter the
👁Learning How to learn something new This is a quick write-up on how I learn something new, such as a new field, discipline, hobby, or skill. [[Knowledge Work]] is contextually fickle: it works only when you have defined the constraints, and in this constraint we aim to do something with our bodies what we have injected
✍Ore Creativity The Concept Definition (Explicit) From Wikipedia: Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something somehow new and somehow valuable is formed. Definition (Tacit) From Aravind Balla: I always thought it as a muscle. But perspective changed when when I read [[Big Magic]]. It's an energy that comes to you. It's not just
👁Learning How to train your creativity This is an extension on the main concept: Creativity. For more on the concept itself, click here. There exist multiple analogies for defining creativity: some more ridiculous than others. They all work just the same as long as they fit our semantics: how we view the world according to our
💭Ego Capacity to Desire Desire is a difficult beast to handle. It comes natural, just like evolution. Your goal is to design the environment in a way that influences the animal to do what you want. It's a horse waiting to gallop, a bull waiting to tackle, a cheetah waiting to pounce on its
🌏Society and Culture Honourable Villainy: Reflections on the Antagonists Salon This is a reflection summary of what happened in the event [[The Antagonists: Exploring Villains in Narratives Salon]]. Description In this salon, Norman Chella will lead a discussion on the role of villains in narrative formats (eg. comic books, movies, novels) and the impact they have on our lives. Are
💭Life-Tempering The Meaning of Tempered You may have seen this word thrown around here: Tempered. It's in my notes, it's in my podcast. It's everywhere, and holds a special place in my heart. A quick google search results in the following: 1.1) Improve the hardness and elasticity of (steel or other metal) by reheating
💭Internal Society You have my permission I've written a permission slip to prevent hesitation. I'm willing to share your burden with you. Maybe you're stuck like I am. You're about to make a decision that will change your life. Maybe you need permission. You might need Life to hold your hand, or even better, a Dear
💭Articulation Table of Contents (TOC) The Concept Definition (Explicit) First few pages of a book. List of headers, titles, etc. that summarise key findings of a book with relevant page numbers as a reference. Useful for navigation. Definition (Tacit) Physical embodiment of an outliner. eg. if we have a very limited [[Roam]] graph of a
💭Ego Kazan This is the region in my mind. In Japanese, it's 火山 which is the word for Volcano. I don't have any inclination or fascination towards volcanoes (I mean, they're pretty awesome I have to say). I guess I liked the sound of the name, the musicality of it. The syllables
💭Life-Tempering Featured Celebrating Birthdays and Existdays Earlier this month (6th) was my 28th birthday. Yay! Well, that's the celebration. All good now. Putting the standard celebration aside, according to what the world is advertising to me, my birthday is an important day to me. How am I celebrating it? Well, it's this post! I'm not doing
👁Memory Should you record most (if not all) of your conversations? I think we should. I tend to record most of my zoom calls, conversations and messages between people if they had ignited a thought in me. The chance to refer back to when it happened is a great way of reflecting on myself as a character. The only thing to
💭Time Cultural Immortality The Concept Definition (Explicit) So far, there is no explicit definition. This is a neologism. As of published date, have not made any effort to find already-existing terms out there. Definition (Tacit) Neologism: This is to determine the relationship between an individual and society in general, asking a simple question:
💭Life-Tempering Why (Question) This feels like the final question to answer once everything is done. Better yet, even before I start something: * Why at all? * Why do anything? * Why must we continue? * Why must we end things? I'll leave it open. Maybe years later, I can flesh this post out. For now, here
🌏Podcasting Featured Retrospective on the Asian Podcasting Ecosystem 2021 A retrospective on the Asian podcasting ecosystem and what we'll need for its future
🌏Podcasting Watch this before starting a podcast Worried about launching a new podcast? What should you watch out for? I recorded this after I was asked about the above. I think these tips would help, especially when it helps you with building the podcast habit (eg. launching a podcast episode every week with proper processes!). Timestamps * 01:
