Sep 28 · 12:20 pmVideo
How To Become Disgustingly Self-Disciplined
Very accurate, if you are in a rut, you need to hear this. I'm been running this for sometime now. (health, interesting, contentment, productivity, Motivational)
2026
curiosity journal
a commonplace notebook — photos, quotes, thoughts, reads, sounds, and finds
Sep 27 · 11:21 amThought
Hello, lurkers! It's been a while since my last update. Things have been on the up lately, and I'm genuinely thankful and blessed. I've been having a blast developing new apps and tech, and I'm very close to finishing a polished, fully usable custom CRM. Given its scope and scale, this one is the crown jewel. It's a full-fledged CRM with extensive built-in logic for sorting, handling, and filing every contact that comes in, and it will link directly to every lead-gen app I build from here on out. On top of that, it has AI-powered custom newsletter generation baked right in, plus a complete event management platform. Think: real estate CRM + Mailchimp + Eventbrite, all in one package. Coming soon: a built-in income and deal tracker, plus calendar and tasks. Meanwhile, as I write this, new lead generation tools are coming online, with custom API handlers built for direct IDX/VOW access to live MLS listings. In tandem, I'm finally executing on some key KBD initiatives, starting with a dedicated KBD CRM that tracks client progress for app development and consulting projects. And the cherry on top: I built a local, offline AI-powered voice dictation app. Hold a single button, speak, and it handles the writing. It's optimized for development work, emails and general text, note-taking, and ideation. The goal behind all of this? Fully custom tools for my business, cutting reliance on paid third-party subscriptions in favour of privacy and self-reliance. I expect to save $100+ a month by moving to tools I've built myself. The time is now. We're living in a moment where you can build your own suite of tools to simplify and organize your life. If you haven't started yet, do it. Become resourceful and self-sufficient. Money isn't easy to come by anymore, and the way to win is to stop relying on others and channel your creativity today. (at Home Office) (interesting, contentment, productivity, ai, status update)
Sep 8 · 11:00 amThought
PSA: if you're going to have a personal renaissance morning — breakfast, supplements, self-care, music, the whole main-character routine — maybe check your calendar first. Because I did NOT check mine, and the vent filter guy showed up to what can only be described as a crime scene: breakfast wreckage, mystery supplement wrappers everywhere, furniture staged mid-reshuffle like we were fleeing the country, a broken art piece, and me — bed head, glorious bed head — just standing there. He looked around. He looked at me. He asked, very gently, "Everything okay?" "Yeah!" I said, with the confidence of a man who is clearly not okay. He offered to help me clean. I DECLINED. Because apparently my pride operates independently from my living room. The second he left I turned into a Tasmanian devil and full-on deep cleaned the entire unit — bathroom included — like I was expecting a home inspector, not the guy who just left. Also plot twist: I was his FIRST stop of the day. So somewhere out there, a vent filter guy is telling his team about the disheveled man he wellness-checked this morning, and unless something wilder happens to him today, I'm the story. Optics are everything, folks. Lesson learned. 🫠🔧 (at Home) (humor, rip, ai, status update)
Sep 6 · 9:46 amRead
The Path Darwin Built to Think
Charles Darwin didn’t do his best thinking at his desk. He did it on a loop of sandy gravel behind his house, walking the same third-of-a-mile circuit, day after day, for over twenty years. He called it the Sandwalk. It ran along the edge of Down House, his home in the Kent countryside, through a narrow strip of woodland he’d planted himself — hazel, birch, dogwood, holly — screening the path from the neighboring farmland so that once he was inside it, the outside world simply disappeared. This wasn’t landscaping for its own sake. Darwin built the path because he needed it. Sitting still with a hard problem didn’t work for him. Walking did. Most days followed the same shape: a couple of hours at his desk in the early morning, then out to the Sandwalk mid-morning, dog at his side. He wasn’t strolling to clear his head before returning to work — the walk was the work. Whatever he’d been circling on paper, he’d carry out onto the path and turn over step by step, the rhythm of walking doing something that sitting couldn’t. He was particular about the loop, almost ritualistic. At the start of each circuit he’d kick aside one flint from a small pile he kept there, so he could track how many times he’d gone around without ever having to hold a number in his head — a strange, small system, but a telling one. It meant his conscious attention was never spent on counting. It was free to stay on the actual problem: a puzzle in barnacle anatomy, an objection to work through, the slow architecture of an argument he wasn’t ready to put into words yet. This is where it gets interesting, biographically. The species question — the idea that would become On the Origin of Species — didn’t arrive in a single moment of insight at his writing desk. It was worked out incrementally, over roughly two decades, much of that on this same repetitive loop. Contemporaries and biographers describe him almost pacing through his own arguments the way another person might pace a room while rehearsing a speech. The Sandwalk was where the theory got tested against itself, long before it went anywhere near a manuscript. There’s something worth sitting with here: the walk wasn’t a reward for good thinking, or a break from it. It was a tool, deliberately built and repeated, because Darwin seems to have understood something about his own mind — that low-stimulus, physically automatic movement freed up the mental bandwidth that sitting still couldn’t. Nothing to navigate, no new sights to process, no decisions to make. Just the same path, the same trees, the same flints — and underneath all that repetition, room for a hard idea to keep turning. He’s not the only one who found this. Wordsworth composed while walking. Nietzsche claimed only thoughts reached while walking had any value. Kant famously walked the same route through Königsberg at the same hour every day. But Darwin’s case is unusually well documented, and unusually literal — he didn’t just enjoy walking, he engineered a specific loop into the landscape of his own home, purpose-built for thought. The path still exists today, and you can still walk it. It’s a small, quiet detail in the life of someone who fundamentally changed how we understand the natural world — but maybe not an incidental one. Twenty years of walking the same third of a mile, one flint at a time, might be as much a part of how On the Origin of Species got written as anything that happened at his desk. (health, interesting, contentment, Motivational)
Sep 6 · 9:36 amThought
Sep 2 · 11:19 amVideo
Goggins and Shoe Staring
David Goggins discussed staring at his running shoes for 30 minutes to an hour debating whether to work out during his appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience #1906.
Joe Rogan and David Goggins talked about how even the most disciplined person feels massive resistance and doesn't always want to start. Goggins noted that the internal battle is real, and the hardest part is often just putting the shoes on when you have zero motivation. (humor, Motivational)
Sep 2 · 9:40 amThought
Missed Monday and got back to the gym yesterday and got in today to be back on schedule - modified my gym regimen to begin reducing reps and shifting to overload to push and then increasing set count for weights, in the over the past 2 weeks I have been comfortably increasing weights by 50-80lbs over the starting weights as I get used to it - I also managed to really hone in the breathing as well which allowed me to keep heart rate down for the duration of the exercise, it also shortened training time by nearly half and less sometimes and then allows me to still get some cardio in with time to spare, I also begin to modify my treadmill workout to include inclines which have dramatically increased my energy consumption more steadily overall enhancing the heavy yet relaxed workout. Finding now if I dial back the weights by even 10lbs I can really see the difference the overload training has been doing for me. Over a month in and biggest difference I can report back from the full body regimen, is arms are way more toned, night and day muscle definition on my shoulders which were the weakest link, and noticeably shaving fat from under my pex's and a slightly slimmer physique. Lets keep pushing. (at Anytime fitness) (health, status update)
Aug 28 · 12:42 amPhoto
Aug 27 · 11:03 pmPhoto
Aug 27 · 1:11 pmQuote
You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.
— Dan Millman (quote, Motivational)
Aug 25 · 1:08 pmPhoto
Aug 21 · 9:05 amQuote
"It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own. If a god appeared to us—or a wise human being, even—and prohibited us from concealing our thoughts or imagining anything without immediately shouting it out, we wouldn't make it through a single day. That's how much we value other people's opinions-instead of our own."
— Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, Book 12 (quote, Motivational, stoicism)
Aug 21 · 8:59 amThought
Woo! Managed to get back to the gym today to resume full-body workouts. I was skeptical given my back was still a bit tweaked, but the determination to get back on track carried me through the week since Monday and I even closed every single ring so far this week. Starting Monday, I made it a point to do some basic resistance training and lots of stretching, then pushed through an hour each day of pure walking at the gym starting Tuesday. Up until last night, I was still struggling to roll over in bed. This morning I got in on time at the gym and went all out — held back on some weights for good measure, but for the ones I didn't think would strain my back, I took a chance and went straight to regular training weights. Despite the pain, I still managed to close those rings and then some, and I'm genuinely enjoying the process of leading an active lifestyle. Can't wait to be back on the Apollo this weekend! To top it all off, I stayed focused on making quality home-cooked meals all week, and even squeezed in a hot tub soak midweek — which may have been the secret recovery weapon. All in all, lesson learned: gotta protect the back at all costs. (at Anytime Fitness) (health, status update)
Aug 20 · 5:44 pmQuote
If you don’t sacrifice to get what you want, what you want will be the sacrifice inevitably
— Heard in passing (quote, Motivational)
Aug 17 · 8:21 pmThought
Was coming from a dinner in North York and I was walking around holding my back like I’m pregnant 🫃 gotta really be careful about tweaking my back next time oof 😥 (at Showing appointment) (humor, status update)
Aug 17 · 5:14 pmThought
6th attempt at the gym did some quality full body workouts again about an hrs worth, about 6km of total walking in, did something crazy and scooted from home to Streetsville a 22km adventure for the heck of it and did it within 68 mins too pretty good, saw tons of great bike lanes and paths took a gravel path for one quarter the trip through wooded area was totally amazing view - all this while stupidly carrying my full work load with me about 40lbs+ and while I got it done I ended up tweaking my back badly - don’t advise carrying weights while riding it’s not great at all for you - lesson learned (at Mississauga after work) (health, rip, status update)
Aug 17 · 6:10 amQuote
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
— Melchizedek (The Old King from The Alchemist) (quote)
Aug 14 · 7:41 amThought
Attempt 5 - Was supposed to be a light day but ended up doing a full leg and upper today at the gym , feeling great, slightly winded but manageable. Super happy I’m sticking to it - let’s keep it going. Also experimenting with making Osakan Dark Phonk Music that carried me through my session - I’ll publish some later this week! (at Anytime fitness) (health)
Aug 14 · 5:55 amQuote
Someday is not a day of the week.
— Denise Brennan-Nelson (quote, Motivational)
Aug 12 · 10:27 amThought
4th gym attendance today - made it an upper day and I was happy I managed to find a rhythm that is repeatable - getting more confident with the routine - making some progress to getting my breathing under control and while I'm at it getting my form perfected. So far though not sure if this was recommended, but I try to keep all the weights consistent across all thematic workouts so this way I'm building a baseline across all the particular muscle training segments. Currently working 40lbs across the board, hoping to graduate more sooner. For now getting those reps in. Lets go looking forward to the next check in! (at Anytime Fitness) (health)