Upward Spiral

 This topic was on my mind for a while, so I decided I'll write down my thoughts on it because nowadays, gathering useful info is undoubtedly more relevant than ever before. Why is that so? I believe that it's because of this assumption. The amount of the total information available to an average person over the course of his life increased dramatically over the last 50 years.   This, innately, seems like a good thing but every coin has two sides to it. Yes, total information available increased which almost certainly means that the amount of useful information available increased. Fine, but what about the drawback? What drawback you might ask. There is nothing more infuriating than when you are trying to dig up some useful information regarding the topic of your choice but guess what, there is just too information . To get to the valuable information you need to first, in most cases, get through a pile of stinky, smelly garbage that offers no informative value whats...

  So, I've decided to try out a new style of content - "compact essays" (I will try to keep them in 1k - 1.5k words range) in which I'll succinctly express my opinion on one topic of my choice. I'll usually go with something along the lines of psychology, futurism or occasional conspiracies (stick to your guns they said xd). I don't really want to poke into fields I have very limited knowledge of because the article itself would be likely factually incorrect, draw an incorrect conclusion or commit various fallacies due to my inability to grasp the complexity of the topic I would be covering. In this pilot, I've chosen a topic I am a big fan of - AI -  to make it easier to successfully manoeuvre in this newly developed format. I reckon that the quality of this type of posts will slowly improve over-time as I gain a better understanding of how to lay out a convincing formal argument in an understandable form. Most of the info I'll be using as the s...

"Whoa, another Cal Newport book!", Or something along those lines, was my reaction when I got my hands on this piece of literature. The author himself says it's more like a manifesto than a book and he is sort of right. The book itself is about 230 pages long but contains a rather large font and a lot of spacing plus frequent repetition of the main concepts the author is presenting which resulted in me being able to read it from cover to cover in 2 days (most books usually take me 5-8 days to read). From an outsiders point of view, one could say that the book was not worth the money (its price was about 15 bucks) and I wouldn't blame him for that assertion because the length and outside appearance of the book is often correlated with an amount of information it provides (unless a 500-page book is a complete word salad, it will contain much more information than a 200 page one) however some books provide a lot of information and do not provide much valuable inform...

  It's been rather hard to catch a breath and write something elaborate in past couple days. Firstly, I had a fantastic opportunity to work as an intern in a facility specialized for treating patients with substance and behavioural addictions - this internship lasted from 25th to 29th June - and secondly, the very next day, I packed all my essentials and went for a 5-day hiking trip returning on the 4th July, finishing a book (So good they can't ignore you by Cal Newport) with which I was behind schedule due to me not having enough time/energy to dive into it each time I would return from the internship in the evening. In addition to that, I've also picked up the pace in regards to learning Japanese. At first, I was rather discouraged because I hit a wall - I got the basics down but making that transition into still basic, but much harder sections of the curriculum quickly turned into an arduous rote memorizing of kanji characters and grammar constructs hence I tempora...