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
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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 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)
Aug 28 · 12:42 amPhoto
Aug 8 · 8:40 amRead
Ajinomoto is secretly running the AI chip industry
No joke - perfectly verifiable information...The seasoning brand behind your instant ramen packets. Turns out they make a material called ABF (Ajinomoto Build-up Film) — a super thin insulating film used inside the packaging of basically every high-end AI chip on the planet (Nvidia, Intel, AMD, all of them). Here's the kicker: the raw material for ABF is literally waste leftover from making MSG. They found a way to turn seasoning byproduct into one of the most important materials in the entire AI boom. The numbers are kind of insane: 🔹 Over 65% of AI chips and server processors rely on ABF substrates 🔹 Ajinomoto controls 95%+ of the global high-end market — basically no real competition 🔹 Chipmakers are now paying 30–50% more and waiting until 2028 just to lock in supply 🔹 Ajinomoto's stock hit record highs this year, all thanks to their "boring side business" So next time someone says "follow the money" in AI... maybe also follow the soup stock. (interesting, ai)
Aug 1 · 6:23 pmVideo
Well Thought Out Mini-home For 4 People
Really well through out design, one of the best kitchen designs I have seen in a van. (interesting, minihome)
Aug 1 · 3:08 pmVideo
Health Risk of Electrolyte Supplements
In moderation is fine but occasional daily use could stack potency (health, interesting)
Aug 1 · 11:29 amVideo
Innovative Way To Move In Korea
Would be nice to see this here in Canada (interesting)