march musings

March 8, 2025

Recently got back into reading some Tolkein. More specifically, I’ve been listening to the audiobook version narrated by Andy Serkis on my way to work. I’ve been experimenting with listening to other things other than music during tense, focus driven moments, which, for some reason, I personally include my morning commute to be a part of. I’ve really found that I can’t listen to music whenever my focus needs to be turned up and cranked to maximum. It’s a quite unfortunate really; music is such a beautiful source of inspiration and motivation, yet I constantly find myself sitting in the silence of my own head, without much acknowledgement or perhaps with much denial of what might be creeping just around the corner.

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who are we now?

February 22, 2025

In typical fashion, I’ve neglected my efforts to get consistent writing done. The last post on here was already a few months ago, and it’s been even longer since I’ve journaled. It’s almost as if all this time has passed without much thought or reflection, which couldn’t be further from the truth. I’ve simply neglected to write any of it down, and that’s something that’s a bit of a shame. I’ve been at my current role at Bloomberg for almost a year now, and I’ve yet to write anything about it on here. Maybe that’s a good place to start.

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four years later?

December 13, 2024

Finally got around to fixing the old blog. Actually, to be more specific, I got around to fixing what I fixed the last time for the blog. Seems like that’s just what I think about this old thing. Nonetheless, it’s something I’ve dragged around all these years, and expanded on too (which simply means we’re paying for it now… hi Namecheap!).

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