A personal system is a set of activities that I do because I want to achieve a certain goal OR because I like doing it.
I have convinced myself that the goal is a worthy goal, and now I shall play by the rules that I have set up for myself. I am generally good at sticking to a system once I build it. This time, I want to write about it in an attempt to reason through what is going on.
8 days ago I managed to twist my left ankle (you may know of this ankle as the good ankle). :(
It was a Saturday and I was super excited because I was integrating cycling back into my training regimen. I picked out a good spot for running and decided to cycle my way there. This would hit two goals at the same time: long distance cycling and easy zone-2 workouts.
After almost 5 years of using Vscode, I am again seriously giving Neovim a shot.
A bunch of folks in my immediate circle use Neovim which was the main trigger for this.
The recent post about hypomnemata, gave me a lot to think about this.
This post came at a time when I am trying to get into mediation. I've been quite regular at this and the idea of looking a principle to ruminate on while meditating is new.
This is a series of follow-ups after the ManasluCircuit2025
Date: 8th May, 2025 (I am posting this after almost a year)
I ran the Sinhagad Epic Trail - 30K on June 27th. This is the second trail run under my name. My First Trail Run was the datum, which was quite decent in my opinion (as far as datums go).
The experience at Sinhagad Epic Trail was markedly different.
A good friend said this to me when I was afraid of failing.
He followed it up with the pigeons in the park are free; you can just take them home.
Lets write a series of statements; all of which are true. One of these statements is unideal and that can be fixed. Try to spot it:
One fine day, I find myself invited to a meteor-shower viewing trip. The details were still undecided but it would involve a bike ride of about 100 kilometres one way. In order to view a meteor shower, we need to get out of the city-light-pollution.
I took some time to confirm my plans. I was getting the pre-trip cold-feet when a friend kindly stepped up and helped me navigate those (thank you). Now that I had committed to the trip, I decided that I would carry my coffee-making equipment on the trip because why not!! It turned out to be a good idea.