Introduction A floor desk is a desk which requires you to sit on the floor. They are usually lower to the ground. I’ve always had a pretty big vendetta against chairs. With the amount of articles, videos, and research done showing how bad they are for our posture, you’re most likely sitting in one anyways because – how else are you supposed to work? Four months ago, I moved to Seattle and I had to furnish my apartment from scratch....
Learning without continuously doing makes mistakes hit harder. … We always think that learning is a good thing. For the last three years, I’ve definitely thought this way, and tried to learn as much as I could in my time at Penn and outside of it. But I’m starting to realize that some of my learning has actually set me back a few steps, and has not only taken away from time I could’ve spent with my friends and family, but has actually made it harder for me to get better at new things....
A running list of things I like. All of these things have made a pretty big impact on my quality of life this year, and I hope some of these can for you too. Food Don Memo’s Chicken Burrito McDonald’s McChicken Lucy Ho’s Azu Chicken Fried Rice Platt Hot Chocolate Software Typora - A way faster/cleaner alternative to Word Alfred (universal copy paste feature is unreal) Notion Whimsical (for diagrams) TickTick iTerm2 Books/Readings Atomic Habits - James Clear The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch The Dip - Seth Godin Westgate, E....
Like a lot of people this past year, I’ve been forced to eat many more meals at home rather than outside as a result of the pandemic. Moreover, from the increased number of meals made at home, my grocery store bills have been way higher, and I’ve realized that eating healthy is actually really expensive. For many who don’t have the privilege of eating healthy, how are they doing? A better question could also be, how are we doing to help them especially in these unprecedented times?...
Introduction I love Thursdays. At Penn especially, Thursdays for most of us are when we’re done with our classes for the week, and we can just max and relax. When it’s Thursday, it feels like the next school week is a forever away and is a problem for the “future me” to solve. In the same vain, there’s so many things right now that we constantly delegate to a new and better “future us” to solve, at way bigger time scales....