There are a lot of different things happening on this blog. I am not sorry whatsoever.
Start with these nice collections!
- Essays: long-form articles where I try to get to the bottom of an idea.
- Thoughts: short(er)-form thought explorations; frustrated ramblings.
- Reviews: cool things I think you should look at.
- Notes: explainers; notes on various things I’ve learned; reflections.
- Advice: for those of you who for whatever reason think I’m qualified to give advice.
You can also browse the various tags and categories to find other stuff you might be interested in.
But wait, what’s the best stuff on this blog?
Of course this is subjective, but here are a few of what I think are the best posts:
- You Need to Be Proactive
- 30-Minute Meetings Are a Scam
- Why Does Theory Matter in Computer Science? (Part 1)
- Lessons I Learned During My Undergraduate Research Internship
- Getting to the End of the Thought; or, Why Write in the Age of AI?
- I Am Slowly Discovering That I Have No Idea How to Read
- How Do I Start a Blog? and Related Questions
- The Absolute Horror That Is Dressing For Work; or, How to Navigate Dress Codes
- The Nonfiction Spectrum
- What Makes a Graduate-Level Course Different From a Senior Undergraduate Course?
I also write an annual blog post about my favourite things I wrote in the previous year. You can find the post for 2024 here and the post for 2025 is here.
I also think everything on the Resources and Projects page is cool and worth looking at, but I guess a lot of those things aren’t really blog posts.
What else can I find on this blog?
There are currently two main series running on this blog:
- Some Interesting Things I’ve Read (or Watched) Lately, where I talk about interesting books, games, videos, etc. that I thought were worth my time. These aren’t quite reviews – sometimes I end up rambling about tangentially related thoughts instead – but they’re close.
- Research Reflections, where I talk about things I’ve learned about academic research (actually, it’s mostly about my ongoing struggles to decipher academic papers). A lot of these are about things I learned the hard way (or wish I was told earlier).
There is also a bunch of other random nonsense. For example, I recently reposted text from an old high school project, simply because I felt like it.