Shitz I Do

Things I do that would make you know dangerously too much about me

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I read Happy City. It’s a book about urban development and how it can help make people happy, how being able to walk to places makes people not only happier but the nation richer, more efficient, and more friendly to environment. There were parts of the book that I didn’t enjoy very much, such as just the stories of certain cities and examples. But I connected strongly with the points put forward by the book. I’m adding this to my spousal reading list. 

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I keep a spousal reading list. It is a list of books that I think my future fiance should read before we get married. I try to keep the list short and talk of the ultimate essential things that we need to discuss.

There are some particular ways of thinking and points that I think are more important takeaways than others from these books, but I will deliberately not say them. 

It is an ongoing effort to maintain this list, but here’s a list so far. 

Tier 1: Lying - Sam Harris How not to be wrong: the power of mathematical thinking - Jordan Ellenberg How will you measure your life - Clayton M. Christensen

Tier 2: Billions & Billions: thoughts on life and death at the brink of the millennium - Carl Sagan Practical Ethics (Chapter Climate Change and The Environment) - Peter Singer

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I read Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel.

It’s an interesting read, but I feel with my guts a lot of things he is saying is wrong.

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I read Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan.

I like it. It’s interesting to see someone’s writing from the perspective of the past, especially one that projects the future, while I’m already living in the future. 

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I listen to submotion orchestra.

Their music is all I wish I were able to write.

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I wrote a song, and I named it after Colchuck Lake in Leavenworth, WA.

I was actually reminiscing about another trail (of the picture actually) mostly, but mainly the sentiments, not the specific events. The memories of rock-skipping are from another trail; the two deformed trees, from yet another trail. All of these trails are from Washington state. The lyrics came about from a conglomerate of my memories of different trails, not of a particular one. Anyway, given the implication of the altitude and scenery, I decided on Colchuck. It least suspiciously has all the features of the trail I included in the song...

My lyrics are largely fictitious, but this is one in which I directly used my personal experiences.

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I sniffle on long flights. 

This is how my thought process goes:

Long flights mean personal entertainment screens. Personal entertainment screens mean free movies. Free movies? I watch. These new releases cost 4-5 bucks on Amazon. I’m going to stay up and watch loads of movies.

So on my recent flights between Philadelphia and Barcelona, I watched lots of movies. And I’m a crier. I’m bound to cry watching these movies, and I did. 

I’m not embarrassed. I just saved 30 bucks or so.  

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I squat. After almost three weeks of no great amount of exercise (other than ridiculously lots of walking and standing on my backpacking trip and trip to a music festival), I went to the crossfit gym that was on Groupon. My legggggggssssss...

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I read fewer and fewer articles. Being up to date with the news is overrated. It’s a way to pass time, but rarely do I keep the information I consume and transform it into something meaningful in my life. 

And of all the significant shitz I do, I decide to write about this over others..

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I listen to Inquiring Minds. This is my recent addition to my podcasts I subscribe to. It talks a lot about science.

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I read The Martian. I love how the book is founded on real science and explains a lot of engineering. No hand-wavy future land stuff going on here. 

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I’m currently taking classes robotic vision, image and video processing, concurrency in Android, and general game playing. It started becoming a lot of work...

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I read The Lawyer Bubble. Even if you don’t care about the legal industry, it’s just interesting and fun to read. There wasn’t much takeaway for me personally, but you can see how broken the industry is. 

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I like math. I was never really good at it (compared to my high school and undergraduate alma mater friends) but I like it. I think there was a lapse of education to a certain extent. (My lack of skills wasn’t entirely due to my lack of interest, effort, or even intelligence.) I was never able to grasp the semantics of proofs without studying it explicitly. So I study math for fun now, and I have no freaking idea how it’s useful to me now and yet I am willing to waste my time studying it.

[masterseating]

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iced americano

many seattle eateries serve stumptown coffee and make it a point that they are serving stumptown coffee.. this was really good.

@ Oddfellows Cafe & Bar, Seattle, WA

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I am taking general game playing class.

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I like Koreless so much. I recently saw him as the opener to Caribou. It was a short show, but I loved listening to his sounds.