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Intro Expert wine drinkers know that most of the wine in this world is shit, so there’s mathematically speaking “less wine” in the world that they can enjoy. But casual drinkers, who won’t know the di
I'm thinking of using this as my life log. Updates in un-real time. A memoir in real time. Yayy
I don’t know what year this was, maybe 2005? My parents were out for a walk. My sister and I were at home. We had a power cut. My sister and I lit a candle, it was common and didn’t feel like
We wouldn’t be more than 9 and 10, me and my sister. Our dad got a call on our landline about a party. He told us to get ready, we’re going to eat out tonight. We put on our semi-fancy clothes. The pl
Gaggi workouts AMRAP 20 mins Workout PR Notes Sohni 10 rows, 10 overhead press, 100 skip rope Angry Sohni 10 RDL+Row, 10 Thrusters, 100 double unders Sahiba 10 bicep curls, 20 skull crushers, 30 ru
Three days after my grandmother passed away in her ancestral home in Bangalore, I stood in my kitchen six thousand miles away, looking at her brass spice box—the masala dabba she had carried across th
In the spring of 2021, like hundreds of other essayists and novelists, I moved a portion of my non-fiction writing onto one of the major venture-backed publishing platforms. At first, the experience f
There is a brief, tender interval of the day—perhaps sixty or seventy minutes long—where the rational architecture of the ego has not yet fully hardened into place. You have been asleep for seven hour
The city outside is still shrouded in that heavy, pearl-gray Pacific fog that curls off the bay and blankets the Victorian rooftops. Downstairs, the street is silent except for the faint hum of a muni
During my midweek Zone 2 run this week, I realized something: this week I wasn’t going to get any real Zone 5 or high-intensity stimulus because I'll be on vacation during the second half of the week.
My daily walking system is foolproof because it is based on one simple principle: I anchor walking to parts of my day that are already “set in stone.” Instead of relying on motivation, I tie walking t
Over the last few years, I’ve learned that “good sleep” isn’t just one thing. It’s a mix of a few different variables that stack together. The two big buckets I think about are sleep quality (how well
The fact of the matter is that if you sit down to do the work, the work will get done. motivation follows action systems beat willpower busyness is avoidance sleep improves performance, brakes are in
Knives out: wake up dead man Dhurandhar Superman The girl with the dragon tattoo Homebound Avatar: Fire and ash The holiday Rocket singh The client Everything everywhere Die hard 2 Die hard 3 Green bo
“Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter.” “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
The end is what gives life meaning. Death. Separation. Ending. Sunsets. Imagine you go on a trip. You’re travelling to a new country and your plan is to spend 10 days there. There are man
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, There is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, The world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase each
Cycling Pondicherry museum Promenard hotel, sundown point Dinner at the spot Gelato near the spot, GMT Bread and chocolate Auroshikha shop: herbal shampoos. Resonable version of cottage naturals Seren
Has something ever happened that made you think that maybe we’re living in a simulation?
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