Category: Personal Essays
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What Philosophy is to Me
When I used to watch a lot of YouTube, I followed quite a few philosophy youtubers. Most of them made videos about old philosophers and their philosophies. This is what so and so said about this and that. This is what what’s his face meant when he said blah blah blah. As interesting as I…
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The Pressures of Human Life
When I was a teenager, all adults would tell me how important it was for me to do well in my studies and get into a good college. I was a good student so I was expected to “achieve my full potential” by getting a good job (engineer or doctor). After that it was expected…
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Nihilism is Almost Spiritual
The current project I’m working on is to organize the most fundamental arguments of my philosophy in their most striped down logical forms in an interconnected web like knowledgebase using Obsidian. I’ve set a rough deadline for this project to be the end of the year. Then, I’ll put some rhetorical meat on the logical…
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Philosophy Journey and Blog Update
It’s been some time since I posted something on the blog. It’s not that I stopped working on the blog but rather my goals about what to do with it, kept changing. If you’ve visited my blog in the last month and a half, you would have noticed that I’ve gone through multiple designs and…
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Put Your Puppy on a Leash: My Take on Meditation
In which I describe my new meditation technique using visual focus to control mental attention.
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A Routine for Rational Nihilists
In which I talk about the routine I’ve developed from a nihilistic point of view.
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Raw Journal Entry: Testing My Philosophy in Real Life
I had the longest phase of bad days since I started this whole thing (being positive and working consistently on my philosophy plan) a couple of months ago. It began by waking up a little bit late and missing workout for a couple of days. The next two days I woke up on time but…
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Flexibility is in the Mind
In a previous post, I talked about how I’m addicted to making timetables and how I’ve always struggled to find the right balance between rigidity and flexibility in my routine. My solution to the problem was to step away from timetables and go with a loose routine where I plan every morning what I want…
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Week 2 Update: I was Constipated
The project I had chosen for week 1 of my 42nd year was a creative non-fiction essay on smoking. It went well and I finished it on time. The article might not be as good as I was hoping but I did finish it. I don’t know if I’ll just publish it on my blog…
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Resisting the Trap of Doing Too Much Too Soon
I know it’s only been 4 or 5 days since I started applying this philosophically derived planning and management system, but I’m already feeling good about it. It’s the right balance of having a plan while still being flexible enough to deal with life. Like today was the Champions Trophy final between India and New…
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Rudya Aditya 