I'm Keiji. I wrote these notes for myself but you're invited! I've found that writing notes is helpful for understanding things better, and it can also serve as a quick reference for sharing my favorite interests. Please email me ([email protected]), shoot me a discord message (username:`kogappa`), or send me [anonymous feedback](https://www.admonymous.co/keiji) if you have any suggestions, questions, or just want to talk! Some suggested starting points: - General: - [[essays]] - [[quotes]] - [[tools]] - photos - [[life]] - [[wildlife]] - cooking - [[teriyaki]] - [[sukiyaki]] - Technical: - [[learning]] - math - [[vectors]] - [[linear ODEs]] - physics - [[fundamentals]] - [[newtonian mechanics]] - [[dimensional analysis]] Some things I believe: - with great power comes great responsibility - use your education to make the world better - technology can be [good or bad](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html). don't build bad technology. - power over nature for individuals is good - power over people and centralizing power is [bad](https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2022/02/09/the-problem-of-the-state.html) - parasitic companies are bad - also bad: ads, addictive apps, [autonomous drones](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU) , superintelligent AI - motivation is the bottleneck, everything else is an excuse - be conscious of what you're motivated by - engineering is problem motivated - science is curiosity motivated - avoid status games - anything that increases your motivation is precious - speed matters, and [there's no speed limit](https://sive.rs/kimo) - nothing has a skill ceiling - money doesn't measure value - markets are inefficient as hell - Minecraft is $30 - [all the container shipping companies](https://companiesmarketcap.com/container-shipping/largest-companies-by-market-cap/) vs [Palantir](https://companiesmarketcap.com/palantir/marketcap/) - [power laws](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law) and [exponentials](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-computer-memory-and-storage) rule the world, and you can [write them](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-launched-into-outer-space?yScale=log&country=OWID_WRL~USA) - only boring people get bored - good taste is the ability to appreciate, not criticize - the world is a museum of passion projects - if it's easy you're not trying hard enough - prophecies tend to be self-fulfilling - we can want and do whatever we want, but we often lack courage and integrity - unhappiness can be addictive - history is made by small teams with big dreams - work-life convergence is better than work-life balance - good friends [listen well](https://kogappa.com/rants/listening/) - joking about suicide is harmful - reading, writing, running, and sleeping are really good for you - college is about exploration not training - try a lot of things and go outside your comfort zone - you'll learn faster doing the work than studying it - read the textbook and take good notes - you forget what you don't use, and that's fine “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothings going to change. It's not.” – The Lorax