WEEKLY BLOG #6
5/7/25
6:01AM-6:20AM: #19mins
Home-Branford
Aim: 14 minutes
1000words
[[Power of Reflection]]
[[Power of Obsidian]]
[[100 Core Terms]]
[[Love of Writing]]
I am so excited, that I am able to continue this journey. I am getting obsessed with Obsidian, and being able to organize the core terms that I learned from the past 10-15 years of reading on my own. Recently, I read a book called [[Nexus]] by [[Yuval Noah Harari]], and that was incredibly eye-opening, specifically towards understanding the power of AI. And I think that genuinely is so incredible, as we slowly continue forward. I’m not sure what I am going to learn, or what the power of AI will be, as we proceed along, but I’m sure things will work out. I think, we can either fight AI, which is a loosing battle, or we can integrate ourselves with the new technology that will be coming in massive waves. I genuinely have a strong desire to utilize the new tools, instead of fighting it.
And if we are healthy, AI will help us, and not hurt us. But if we are in a battle, even with ourselves, things will become chaotic super fast. And as long as we raise the most important of issues, and we have people who are living with their own volition, I think we will have extraordinary capabilities moving forward. Also, reading [[SuperIntelligence]], by [[Nick Bostrom]], further gives me the belief that, AI will inevitably surpass us, so we can’t really fight it, we can only understand and move AI in the right direction. Because, I actually had an interview with an AI yesterday, and I didn’t have patience initially, but once I did, it wasn’t that bad.
And I think this is going to be common, as we move forward. And I’ve read a lot of books in my life, and I’m sure other people read way more, and some people don’t read at all, but from what I’m learned, I’m sure a lot of cool things are possible. For example, currently, I am going through [[Mastery]] again, by [[Robert Greene]], I just recall that when I read this book, I was mesmerized by some of the examples that came about in the book, and I was genuinely impressed with the nuance of knowledge that was in that book. But if you were to ask me specifically what I learned, I don’t have the capacity to regurgitate exactly what I learned, but rather the feeling that I got.
But because of ChatGPT now, I am able to regurgitate specific things that I learned from this book. And now, with the 100 core terms, I can actually talk about this book, with nuance points, because I am acquainted with the most important of terminologies from the book. And once I start using one term, my brain automatically finds related topics, and I start making sense of the term that I am seeing. And because nowadays, I write at least twice a day, I also get to practice with these terms. And it’s incredible that you don’t need that much time, to actually retain nuanced knowledge, especially if you have reference to reading the whole book. Our brain has amazing capacity for knowledge, but the hardest thing about it is, the retrieval process, and I want to master that process.
I don’t necessarily want to become a memory champion or anything, but I do know the power of the human brain, and once it is utilized properly, the right associations will help us retrieve the right terminology, as long we categorize it in our brain properly. And I think that is important to understand. And nowadays, going from one topic to another are not hard, as the categories are genuinely help me so much, and I genuinely love it so much as result. Things become chaotic when we have too much information in front of us. At least, in front of our eyes. The front needs to be clean, and no matter how nuanced a situation is, if the front is clean, the brain can formulate the proper procedures to decode the situation. And I genuinely think that is such an amazing phenomenon.
And these moments give me so much hope, that everything will be ok. And reading [[Surfaces and Essences]] by [[Douglas Hofstadter]], really did open my eyes, to the power of analogy. And how we actually just decode information, based on references that we already have. And that, it is easier for our brain, to retrieve information that is already linked to previous information. And I think that is so incredible. And I have learned a lot as a result. So I will do what I can, in order to combine the meanings from the books that I have learned. And it’s not just one or two books, I am trying to integrate all my fascinations into one topic, so I have a more nuanced perspective, then let’s say if I just read one book.
And for me that gives me incredible knowledge, and although, I myself haven’t published a book, as I don’t even have a thesis yet, but I do have a collection of work, of all the things that I care about, and a deep analysis on how I view life. And I think that will be incredibly resourceful for me going forward. And if this blog is published on this site, do know, I am gaining more confidence, and I think being able to integrate, and synthesize a lot of these books, will be of paramount importance for my growth. And I still read, whatever I find super important, and that’s genuinely such an amazing feeling for me. To know amazing authors are always writing, trying to share their knowledge about the world. And we have 8 billion people on this planet right now, so it’s inevitable, that once enough people see the possibilities, even more amazing things are possible. But this is the positive vibes I’m talking about. We have to see through the deceptions of reality as well, if we want to live a good life, each and progressing days. And it’s interesting to me, and the paradigm shift that I see within me.