thoughts
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Reflecting on significant changes during my first year of PhD studies, focusing on adapting to a new life in Vienna. The need for constants amidst change and how things make sense differently now.
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To summarise, 2024 was half resting and half grinding. This year I am trying to build my intuition to navigate life without frequent journaling. More like freestyling it. The beginning of 2024 was a bit bumpy, I did not know what to envision how this year was going to be. Using money to set myself…
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This year I didn’t keep a journal everyday, unlike the other years prior. I chose to do so because I predict that my life would be so chaotic and keeping a journal would just add more burden than benefits. It is true. This year, I visited 5 countries, ran a full-marathon for the first time,…
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Hey there! I am back again with my overly-complicated way of reviewing what happened in the last year. I recorded my day-to-day using a Google Form in which the records are stored in Google Sheets. Then I exported the data to Jupyter so I can analyse it using Python. You can see the Google Form…
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*edit: by the way, the code for this project is now up on this Github page. Hi there! I’m back to review how my year was, but now I’m not using Google Sheets despite my love and passion for that app. I’m using R, a love x hate alliance that I built this year in…
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I think it’s helpful to know what are the drivers of my own mind. So here I lay them out. Humans have 2 types of thinking: (1) the automatic and (2) the deliberate. We use both of them everyday. The automatic has been there for a long time and helps us through the evolution process.…