💭Ego Featured

2023: To Undergo Ego Rebirth (Part I)

This is the start of my journey to a better Self from 2023 onwards. Includes a photoshoot I did to commemorate an ego rebirth.

💭Articulation

The Language of Storytelling

An inner character transcript on the language of storytelling.

💭Love

Do the angels miss their muse

Do the angels miss their muse And resent me When I propose A lifetime of glorious surrender To your name? Do they send kisses of jealousy In our direction When I graze My hand atop yours Before the sunset? And do they feel wrath Like blind devils When we elope

🌏Society and Culture

To be Undefined

The word niche is poison to the mind. How much can you live for when you limit your interests to one thing and present yourself that way? We are colorful in nature. Think about what we do to work, to play, to study, to have fun with, to talk about

💭Life-Tempering

On the Sleeping Death

I find it strange we emulate the dead when we go to sleep. We assume sleeping positions, close off some final thoughts, and next thing you know, rest is allowing the body to stand still. For now, our coffins are comfortable pillows, and our mattresses are the foundation for our

💭Love

Love is like kintsugi

We are all broken fragments inside, and we try to find the right fit in other people’s souls. Can you imagine picking up the fragments of another person, one who had willingly, or even worse unwillingly, threw the vase that held their life onto the ground, only to see

💭Articulation

Painting an Interpretation of God

What does a God look like to an artist's eye?

💭Articulation

Writing Seclusion

On writing seclusion, and the joy of writing without distractions from the world.

💭Articulation

Mindblending

Mindblending is when the conditions for articulation are optimal in that it requires no translation. Zero hesitation exists & has no power. You’re just speaking naturally. Equally, we both share the same semantics, or better, our arbitrage definitions are mutually understood.

💭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