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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Random list but I am told I am a unpaid ambassador for:

    • Vitamix
    • Zero inbox for work
    • Stoic mindfulness / negative visualizations / Momento Mori
    • Birkenstocks , even if they went a bit downhill
    • Star Trek
    • Chimes peanut butter ginger candy
    • Tea…in general
    • Merino wool socks
    • Lemmy


  • News apps, RSS feeds and online communities.

    Apple News is decent in that you can pick and choose your interests and hide certain news sources. Associated Press AP News app is great too. I’m in Canada so I also have the CBC and CTV apps. For RSS, I use Feedly app. It has a good discovery mechanism but most the time I manually add urls of sites I want to follow.

    Other than that, I get shared links in different slack workspaces and discord servers.



  • I was one of three women in my year who graduated in CS at my university. I did most of my course work at home…trying to be one of the guys and make sure kindness wouldn’t be considered flirting made for a weird 4 years. No horror stories to tell though , just plenty of awkwardness.


  • I used to have the “Apple for hardware , google for software” mentality. I’d use google mail, calendar, maps, drive, chrome…on my apple products.

    But recently I’ve noticed myself slowly migrate to Apple. I have Apple One family (not premier ) which is worth it IMO.

    Apple Maps feels less invasive than Google maps and they’ve upped their game recently.

    Safari has become my default browser with Ecosia as the default search engine. Love that Safari shares tabs across devices.

    I still have Google mail and calendar installed though. I prefer the UI.

    The copy paste ability across devices is something I use daily too.


  • I went down the rabbit hole of stoicism 15 years ago when I had a lot of existential anxiety and while it didn’t miraculously help, it really did nudge me into a new path over time.

    Small things like not focussing on happiness as a goal, having a momento mori around and taking the time to stop and think about its meaning when I’m overthinking. Doing the negative visualizations on rough days.

    It’s more than a philosophy. It’s a good self help tool to have in your tool belt.