💭Internal Society

The Happiness Growth Plateau

Money X Happiness as axes, addressing conflict and opportunity, the influence of civilizational fabric on the self, and how to achieve infinite happiness

💌Lorebook

GRIDPROSE: On Clouds and More.

Creative freewriting session on the 8th July, 2022. Theme is seasons and weather.

💌Inner Transcript

Newsletter Update: July 2022

My Dear Friend, Welcome to The Inner Transcript. Let's start the roundtable, shall we? (For a quick reminder as to who the characters are, click here) This is a small update for those who signed up to this newsletter: Cloever: Hello there, My Dear Friend. Podrick: HELLO PODCASTERS! Cloever: Silly

💌Lorebook

Intangibeauty

I surrender to the cause of creation: The stone makers who carve Intangibility They warp reality to their liking And only us, mere peasants, Can finally see Truth as your beauty: Sculpted by god out of the imaginary To teach us envy In every movement you do.

👁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: