On greatness and routine.
The first and most important thing to note is this; far much more than working hard or being productive at anything, is to first be able to decide on that which is worth spending time on.
Routine, as I see it, is a necessary requirement for a great life. And the conventional wisdom that having a difficult life today creates a good tomorrow might just be the thing that best sums it up.
It unfortunately, though, remains- i believe- one of those things for which i’m not uniquely qualified to offer an opinion. This is not to say that i’m not a person of routine- i am. The derelict is more to the fact that, unlike most people, i’ve never had to work on being routined to be routined.
Which probably accounts for why I daily wake up and wish that I hadn't. But please do not pity me. I self-perpetuate.
Rumor has it for instance, that i haven’t skipped a day of reading in the last five years. i believe the idea ridiculous. But the approximation- to say the truth— might very well be within range. i read everywhere, you see- in toilets and while walking. in between cooking and while eating.
i was lucky to have figured early enough that brilliance is my sole claim to relevance, and so being smart consequently became the only way i know to like myself. And so i do it, only because i'm trying to stand the thing i daily see in mirrors. i do it because i'm trying to like myself.
Still, i- like you- need to be more conscious of my routine. which is certainly one of the reasons i decided to start this blog. Also, because tech has a better return on attention investment than the sciences, i skip classes and spend my time building edesah while working- and would continue to- on machine learning research and projects every day for the foreseeable future, too. Which i hope explains the point i opened with. right? right?