Welcome to my notes!
I’ve always been an avid learner and reader, but up til now, I’ve rarely put in the time to condense everything that I have learned and found insightful into one place. However, after four years of undergrad, two years of equivalent internships, two career switches, and lots of self-discovery, both professional and personal, I thought that this is the time to put some of the things I’ve learned out there.
The inspiration
The inner workings of my brain are scattered everywhere - my notes app on my phone for personal thoughts and to-do lists, my Notability app on my iPad for anything school-related, Google Drive and iCloud storage for random files and papers that I don’t need to annotate and thus don’t go into my iPad, liked posts on Substack, saved posts on LinkedIn, a physical notebook I keep for work-related learnings, a second physical notebook I keep for every interview I’ve ever done, you get the point. Everything is everywhere and half of it isn’t even searchable, so I rely on my memory and always bringing what I need with me to have access to important information at any given time. Isn’t that silly?
This year, after making friends with some individuals who are very organized with their portfolio and notes, I was inspired to start something like this - a personal website and notes combination. My personal website will be for my portfolio and other more polished demonstrations, and this notes corner will be for thoughts, learnings, and anything else that catches my eye.
Why I’m publishing this to the world
I could do all this and keep it to myself. Perhaps that would even be better - move in silence, and all that. However, I’ve found immense value in reading the notes of others to get a glimpse into how they learn through their eyes, and reading the things they have found valuable. It’s like hitting a vintage thrift store instead of Salvation Army - but for free. All their thoughts have already been condensed and polished into the most important points, and this curation is invaluable. Maybe this will help someone else, who knows?
How this is made
I take these notes on Obsidian and release them through Quartz.
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