i have always wanted to keep notes but had struggled with it until I started to be okay with taking imperfect notes and storing them imperfectly – i call it my second subconscious instead of second brain:

Winnie Lim

imperfect notes & my second subconscious

For more than a decade I've been trying to keep notes somewhere. I think it started with the appearance of Evernote. I loved the the idea that...

#obsidian #blogging

today i questioned what is the point of online publishing for me while in the process of publishing a photoessay so i wrote about it (it may sound cynical so don't click if you're allergic to that sort of thing):

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random scenes from tokyo, and some thoughts on online publishing

I had a plan to publish these photos today for my weekly post, but I had found myself wondering what is the point of it all. What is the point of t...

#streetphotography #blogging

i packed some of my doom piles and i barely reached the tip of the iceberg

is it cheating if i read graphic novels for my yearly reading goal

wrote about how i feel like i have the emotional maturity of a child, how i have a deep fear of my loved ones ageing and dying, and that i am waiting for myself to grow up:

Winnie Lim

waiting for my self to grow up

I had Atul Gawande's "Being mortal" in my kindle library for a long while now but I've only read it a couple of weeks ago. I wasn't ...

#blogging #writing

I am obsessed with drawing (particularly sketchbooks) in many ways, but I don't enjoy doing it myself. wrote a post examining the strange relationship i have with it:

Winnie Lim

my strange relationship with drawing

This morning I was watching a youtube video on a famous comic artist's sketchbook, and I caught myself thinking that I have such a weird relat...

#blogging

I just finished "being mortal" by Atul Gawande – had it for a long while but never felt like reading it. recently i finally felt like i was ready to meet this book. i regularly write about meeting people where they are, i realised it is possible to find books that meet us where we are too. no one likes to talk about growing old, having a terminal illness, end-of-life care, and dying – but denying these conversations will make us unable to cope with these situations when the time comes.

what i learned from strength training is to clench my butt whenever i am lifting something heavy

[tw: suicide] had a lot of thoughts and feelings after Baek Se-hee's passing, so I wrote:

Winnie Lim

what does it take to hang on

[tw: suicide] Saw from an acquaintance's feed that the author Baek Se-hee had passed away at the age of 35. The cause of death was not publish...