How Russian Icon Painting Influences Contemporary Eastern European Art The gold leaf has not dried. Six centuries after Andrei Rublev painted the Trinity, his visual […]
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The Week I Almost Quit Quitting: What Dry January 2026 Actually Taught Me
The Timing Was Strange I started Dry January 2026 on January 2nd instead of the 1st. Not because I was being rebellious or because I […]
Continue readingI Tried Google NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews to Actually Study. Here’s What Went Wrong (And What Went Shockingly Right)
The Setup: Why I Thought This Would Finally Work I’ve been chasing the perfect study hack for years. Not the Instagram-friendly kind where you buy […]
Continue readingThe Strange Duality of My Email Voice After Six Months With Apple Intelligence
The Thing I Started Noticing Around Week Eight I’ve been using Apple Intelligence Writing Tools since they rolled out across iPhone 16 and Mac in […]
Continue readingThe Sober Curious Industrial Complex: What Nobody Warns You About When You Quit Drinking in 2025
The Moment I Realized This Wasn’t Just a Personal Decision I quit drinking in early January, right in that sweet spot when the new year […]
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Why Painting Still Matters When Screens Are Everywhere
We live inside the image. Not beside it, not across from it—inside. The average Western adult spends over seven hours daily with a screen centimeters […]
Continue readingDeepSeek Changed How I Think About AI — And I’m Not Sure That’s a Good Thing
The Moment Everything Felt Different I remember exactly where I was when I first heard about DeepSeek’s R1 model in January. I was in the […]
Continue readingSix Months with Vision Pro 2: Why I Felt Like an Idiot Wearing a Ski Goggle to Work
The Expensive Unboxing That Changed Nothing I bought the Vision Pro 2 in March because I wanted to believe in the future. That’s the real […]
Continue readingThe Notion vs. Obsidian Debate Is Dead — Here’s Why I Switched to Both at the Same Time (and What That Chaos Taught Me)
The Setup: Why I Decided to Blow Up My System I spent three years as a Notion zealot. Capital N, full commitment. My workspace looked […]
Continue readingI Tried Claude 3.7 Sonnet for 30 Days Instead of ChatGPT and Here’s My Messy Honest Report Card
Why I Switched (And Why I Almost Switched Back) Look, I was that person. The one with ChatGPT pinned to my browser tabs, the one […]
Continue readingI Tried the 2025 ‘Dopamine Menu’ Trend for 30 Days and Here’s What My Messy Tracking Spreadsheet Actually Showed
What Is This Dopamine Menu Thing Everyone’s Talking About? If you’ve scrolled past #dopaminemenu on TikTok lately, you’ve probably seen someone enthusiastically organizing their life […]
Continue readingI Tried the Apple Vision Pro for 30 Days and Here’s What Nobody Tells You About Eye Strain
The First Week Felt Like a Magic Trick I bought the Apple Vision Pro in March 2024, three weeks after launch. At $3,499, it was […]
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