Tag: books

  • Devlog 3: Focusing on the Process Instead of the Result

    Completed Tasks Lessons Learned I started this, almost a month long period, by deciding to focus on the YouTube video on absurdism that I’ve been working on, but soon I changed my mind and continued to work on both YouTube and philosophy. I started working on the ItRaN page and moved some stuff from the…

  • Devlog 2: Learning to Pace Myself

    Completed Tasks Lessons Learned I learned that I need to pace myself in developing this philosophy. There is so much I have already written and thought about that sometimes it makes me want to rush through it all. If I do that, it’ll come across like the ramblings of a mad man. (Even more than…

  • Devlog 1: Gaining Confidence in My Project

    It’s only been a week since I officially started building my philosophical system, but I’ve already developed a lot of clarity over my main argument and my confidence that I’m doing something valuable has grown. Front Page The front page of the website is done, for now. The good thing about an iterative system is…

  • Fighting the Cult of Productivity

    In a couple of days, I’ll turn 41 years old. As I prepare to start my 42nd trip around the sun, I’m trying to come up with a time management system that sits well with my philosophy and doesn’t repeat the same mistakes I always make, as I talked about in my last post on…

  • I Wrote a Philosophy Book

    (And Realized I’m Not Really a Philosopher) I’ve been working on my philosophy for a while now. I’ve approached it in a few different ways. First, I wanted to redefine Nihilism, because that’s kind of the closest philosophical term that I can think of, for my philosophy. Then I came up with my own term…

  • Self-Meta-Critical Letter/Journal Entry

    Dear Reader, How are you? How’s life? Can you really answer these questions? You can reply to this email and the replies will automatically get posted as comments under the blogpost for this letter. And if you do that, I will definitely read them and reply and perhaps even continue the conversation. But the more…

  • Why Philosophy?

    When I told my friend that I wanted to do philosophy, the first question she asked was, “Why!?” The tone had both an exclamation mark and a question mark. I think a lot of people might feel that way. Why would anyone want to pursue philosophy? It’s not a highly promising career track; in fact,…

  • Audiobooks are a Scam!

    Our culture is obsessed with productivity. It’s not enough to do one thing at a given time. If we’re doing something that doesn’t require 100% focus and attention, then we must listen to something on the side, so as to maximize the productivity we can wring out of each moment. If we don’t do it,…