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Notes on Life

A collection of 6 issues

Is building a business supposed to consume your life - even when you do everything right?

I’ve been thinking about why work still consumes founders even when they prioritize well, automate, and build great systems. This post explores whether that pattern is inevitable.

Control is caffeine for your relationship with reality

I was researching how to fix my circadian rhythm. One of the main levers is to have your last coffee by 2pm. Not because caffeine makes it impossible to fall asleep, but because of how it works: even when you can fall asleep, drinking coffee too late quietly degrades sleep

I miss sleepless nights

I miss sleepless nights. The earliest time I can recall… It was probably summer of 2001, one or two years before my dad passed away in the summer of 2003. I remember because I just completed 5th grade. We were supposed to take a vacation to Boracay with my dad’

Why I moved to Germany

It was easier to move from the Philippines to Germany than it was to move from Caloocan to BGC. I think it’s the Filipino-Chinese. Perhaps, it’s just my family. Either way, it was frowned-upon and kind of unacceptable to live on my own. When you already live in

Why do you climb mountains?

Personal experience would seem to be a no-brainer but very, very few people will trust their own experience against the word of either many people or a single “expert.” Rory Miller on how you decide what is true; from Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real

The day I got it in my head to join the Olympics

Jimmy Angana [http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php/Jimmy_Angana] – the #1 freestyle wrestler in the Philippines today – was laughing at me, pulling me up, and cajoling me to stand up and fight. Albert Balde – then-president of the Wrestling Association of the Philippines – was at the edges of the mat,