There are things I keep learning, forgetting, and having to learn again. Note to Self  is where I write them down — not as advice for anyone else, but as reminders to the version of me who will inevitably forget. I am a PhD student, a teacher, and someone who is still figuring out what kind of scholar she wants to be. These notes are part of that figuring out. They are practical, personal, and sometimes embarrassingly specific. I'm sharing them here in case they're useful to

I have a complicated relationship with productivity. I do not want to become a machine — but I have started to think that the best version of myself is somewhere between fully human and fully mechanical. Emotion and unexpectedness are where discovery comes from. Discipline and system are what let you actually do something with that discovery. This post is my current attempt to hold both: what I have learned, three years into a PhD, about building a life that makes good work m

I turned 30 this year. I never feel so good. To better keep reminding myself, I decided to sit down and recall few lessons I learnt in...

1. I single-handedly renovated my parents' house. The journey went from frustration to satisfaction. I learnt to believe in first...

I came across this on the other day and figured I should keep it somewhere safe. Sometimes keeping something helped reminding me of who I...