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📘 Rediscovering the Joy of Learning — Even in the Grind Recently, I was reconnecting with a friend, and we found ourselves deep in a conversation about learning — or more specifically, losing the passion for it. My friend shared that they had reached a point where he no longer felt motivated to learn. That hit home for me, because I realized I had been on the edge of that same feeling not long ago. Life’s daily demands — work, routine, survival — can slowly dull the excitement we once had for chasing knowledge. Sometimes, you don’t even notice it happening. With AI and automation tools increasingly doing the “thinking” for us, the joy of learning through struggle — of wrestling with a hard problem and growing from it — can start to slip away. These tools are amazing, no doubt. But if we’re not mindful, they can make us passive instead of curious. For me, engineering was the domain where I rediscovered that joy. Tackling complex systems, iterating crude prototypes, and refining them over time made me feel alive again. But that journey wasn’t without its paradoxes. I often asked myself: “How do I balance the pursuit of learning with the need to earn?” They don’t always align. And in fact, the most meaningful learning often comes when you’re not optimizing for revenue, but for understanding. Still, to sustain that journey — especially in engineering — you need capital. And that’s where the blend of engineering and business comes in: solving meaningful problems while building something sustainable. But even with all that, passion can still be blocked by daily monotony: 📌 A job you no longer enjoy 📌 Life pressures (visa issues, financial stress, etc.) 📌 The overwhelm of constant chores or shallow work How do you reclaim focus and creativity in such conditions? You have two options: Externalize the chaos — write, journal, map your thoughts, systematize your life Internalize it all — try to process and manage everything in your head (harder, often unsustainable) I’ve done both. What I’ve learned is that the method doesn’t matter as much as your intent to find clarity. Along the way, tools, systems, and habits start to compound like interest — shaving 2% off here, 5% off there — and eventually, they buy back your time and attention. You regain space for curiosity. You start building again. You learn because you want to — not because you’re forced to. And sometimes, that spark is all it takes to start climbing out of the fog.

Its not that I like expensive things. I like things and they happen to be expensive.

I got a friend streak invitation from a friend on Duolingo. I accepted it happily and then what did our dearest Duolingo app do? It just chopped my over 200 friend streak with my brother off and added a new one. 🤬🤬🤬🤬

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Duolingo's new 'booooo'ing feature 😂😂

How many of you Flutter developers are frustrated by banking apps refusing to open unless you turn the developer option off ? I know its for security reasons but also having to tap build number 7 times again is really annoying 😫

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I'm being inspired to cook something too baby 👨‍🍳🍳

I thought Independence is one of the final stages of maturity. We were all dependent on early stage of anything. Children for example were dependent on their families' protection, love and guidance, we were once or still dependent financially, physically and emotionally on other people until eventually we become more and more independent, until we can finally take care of ourselves. But then there is interdependency. As we grow and mature we become increasingly aware that the nature is interdependent. We further discover the higher reaches of our life has to do with our relationship with others.

Happy Easter y'all 🎊

Not a fan of TikTok though 😌

Have you all watched that tiktok video where a girl visually represents what statements like "oh i missed one day in the gym, might as well give up now" or "i didn't fulfill my resolutions in january, i cant do it now" or something of the sort. And she showed how ridiculous those statements are by showing that if you poured water on the counter, you'd wipe it, not dump more water. Or if you dropped a sock when moving laundry you'd pick it up, not overturn your laundry basket all together. So lets not piss on our progress. Its not perfect. Not even close but its being done. We might be giving it 20% here, 60 there or 35 here and 15 there but its fine. Because we're giving it something and building on what we already gave. Not restarting from scratch at every iteration. So say it with me now, "I will not piss on my progress."

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Genius admires simplicity while stupid admires complexity

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Got my first badge 💪 😁

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