Thought Garden
What I Would Tell My 20-Year-Old Self
Not a strategy — just eight things I had to learn the slow way.
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A personal archive — where I keep what I've learned, lived, and want to remember. Reflections on life, work, and the questions that don't have tidy answers.
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Life Running on a Digital Engine
Decide the recurring things once — then let them run like rules, not daily debates.
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Modal Thinking: Separate Deciding From Doing
Decide, then do — and never let the two run at the same time.
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Play the Game
Strategy without play is a beautifully drawn map of a country you never visit.
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The Programmable Self
Calendar as scheduler, todos as wait queues — what happens when you treat the mind as an OS.
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Programming Abstractions Are Bets
Every abstraction is a bet, and early certainty deserves a little humility.
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Programming Beacons
A variable named 'node' tells you half the story before you read a single line more.
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The Purpose of Highlights
If a highlight has no future action in it, you are only hoarding sentences.
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Reading Is Catching Balls
Meaning does not arrive in the mind by itself — reading is catching, and catching takes effort.