For the past few months I've gotten quite into the groove of using AI for work and life. The more I use it, the more I start seeing the rough edges that, if one isn't careful, can cut unexpectedly into real life. One of those edges I've found is its "lack of humanity". I know,... Continue Reading →
It's been such a long time since I last wrote. I suppose I could blame my change of jobs, which has taken up a lot of mental bandwidth. I suppose I could also blame how my writing catharsis leans heavily towards AI/LLMs now (e.g. ChatGPT). Writing tends to be quite fungible for me, scratching the... Continue Reading →
While on a run I, feeling a little jaded, a little tired, started thinking how nice it'd be if I didn't have to run. Then I caught myself, and laughed a little at the absurdity of that thought. Running has brought me much joy, and it is through running that some of my finest insights... Continue Reading →
Was just reading the book gifted to me from a good friend You Only Die Once and in the book there was a questionnaire that asked me to rate myself against the statement "I feel like I have a distinct purpose on the planet, like my life has some kind of meaning." I scored quite... Continue Reading →
I'm currently reading the book Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression and it's... depressing. I'd thought of reading the book because I wanted to understand depression a little more, as I felt I was a little more susceptible to its callings (for reasons I won't go into here); and with greater understanding, the... Continue Reading →
Am I Donn dreaming that I am writing this text, or am I text dreaming I'm being written by Donn?
I hadn't read Camus for a while. A decade now; almost two. (It somehow confuses me to be able to talk about the past in decades and not years.) I remember him well as he was the first author whose books I bought at Kinokuniya, the bookstore I always found too high-end, but that carried... Continue Reading →
For the longest time I have felt like writing here on edonn.com, but life got in the way. Specifically, I was too busy changing jobs. After close to eight years at Study Group I decided it was time for a change, and so here I am now at Vonage. Leaving Study Group was one of... Continue Reading →
This has been an interesting year, and I wish you a great last day before we move into 2021. No matter how the year has turned out for you, I'm sure it has been "interesting", good or bad, filled with stories.
"From Monday to Friday," I tell the wife, "I'll be doing 100 push-ups. And Tuesday, Thursday, and I think Saturday, 100 squats. Oh, and I'll be aiming to run 20km per week." She looks at me like I'm mad. "What for? What'd you pushing yourself so hard for?" "I gained three kilos since the lockdown,"... Continue Reading →
Donn, fragments 