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Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 9 posts
Loneliness Works Like Hunger — How to Read a Signal of Deficit
Loneliness is not the state of being alone. It is the gap between the relationships you want and the ones you actually have. John Cacioppo read that sensation as a deficit signal from the same family as hunger and thirst
2026-07-26 · 12 min read #mindset#healing#loneliness#relationships#connectionKeep One Thing You Are Bad At — The Practice of Living as an Amateur
Mention a hobby today and the talk about monetizing it follows within a minute. But the word amateur never meant someone short on skill. It came from the Latin amator, a person who does it out of love. Through the recove
2026-07-26 · 11 min read #mindset#healing#hobby#recovery#identityStopping Does Not Mean Falling Behind — What Burnout Taught Me
The harder you have worked, the less you know how to stop. Burnout is a condition that arrives from the opposite side of laziness. This post walks through the three signals of burnout as defined by the World Health Organ
2026-07-20 · 6 min read #mindset#healing#burnout#rest#recoveryDoes the Gratitude Journal Actually Work — The Counting Blessings Experiment and Honest Effect Sizes
The gratitude journal, that staple prescription of self-help content, traces back to the 2003 counting-blessings experiment by Emmons and McCullough. The group that wrote down five things they were grateful for each week
2026-07-20 · 6 min read #psychology#paper-review#mindset#gratitude#healingTheir Highlight Reel and My Behind the Scenes — When Comparison Starts to Hurt
The urge to compare yourself with others does not switch off just because you want it to. Comparison is a basic cognitive function of being human. The problem is not comparison itself, but the fact that comparison in the
2026-07-20 · 5 min read #mindset#healing#social-comparison#self-esteem#snsA Manual for Days When You Feel Like Doing Nothing
There are days when you turn off the alarm and still cannot get out of bed, days when you know what needs doing but your body will not move. Read such a day as a failure of willpower and the self-blame begins, and self-b
2026-07-20 · 6 min read #mindset#healing#motivation#rest#self-compassionA Prescription for Overthinking Nights
Some nights you are fine all day, and then the worries pour in the moment you lie down. That is not weak willpower — night is simply the worst possible time for the brain to handle worry. Drawing on the psychology of rum
2026-07-20 · 6 min read #mindset#healing#anxiety#sleep#ruminationYou Do Not Have to Be Good to Everyone — The Art of Boundaries
This is for the person whose calendar has been filled with requests from others because saying no feels impossible, the person carrying the fatigue traded for a reputation as a good person to everyone. It talks about how
2026-07-20 · 6 min read #mindset#healing#boundaries#relationships#communicationThe Courage to Be Kind to Yourself — Self-Compassion Is Strategy, Not Weakness
On the days we make mistakes, we say the most hurtful things to ourselves — things we would never say to a friend. Through the three elements identified by self-compassion pioneer Kristin Neff (self-kindness, common huma
2026-07-20 · 5 min read #mindset#healing#self-compassion#resilience#self-esteem