faust

I've been casting mostly about books - why?

Because my day to day is fixing Roc Camera software bugs is currently a grind

More updates on this soon

creating and destroying; flying cars, jet engines, roc.camera, july.rocks /faust

Aviator, diver, Etherean, nexialist, PhD in aviation and climate science, host of /diving /ethfinance /forteantimes /geopolitics /science /singapore /thomas

1/ I was getting bored at my job and wanted to refresh my mental models, while getting a differentiating credential in my field

2/ Singapore always appealed to me as a combination of first-world and quality of life (clean, green, safe, great food, etc) while being at the barycenter of growth (Asia)

Curious, any reason why you decided to do a PHD and why Singapore.

Asking for me.

I envy your ability to balance those things out. Whenever I have a $project on the way, I struggle to stop thinking about what needs to be done, and to check out even for a few hours of enjoyable side quests such as reading.

My PhD was most terrible for that — I’d feel guilty whenever I was doing anything other than progressing my research, to the point that entertainment (reading, watching a movie, etc) became not worth it. Not a healthy mental spiral.

Yet you find the resolve to tell the bugs to wait while you go touch proverbial grass (which I assume makes you more efficient at fixing them later)