Our first foster puppy Fitz got adopted today! I'm already crying out of happiness but also a little sad we probably won't see him again. Muddy Paws in NYC is a wonderful org if you're ever interested in adopting or fostering 🥰

I went into my physics studying with an open mind on what I would like most. So far astrophysics still holds up as most interesting to me! I loved electromagnetism way more than I anticipated. I prob liked quantum a bit less than I expected (lack of intuition was strange for me)

Fully focused on Taylor's Classical Mechanics now to dive deeper into mechanics. First few chapters were mostly a review of intro mechanics. Now learning Lagrangian and later Hamiltonian. Brushing up a lot more on my calculus and it's fun! Enjoying author's writing style too

How special! One of my absolute favorite books of all time is A Mind at Play about Claude Shannon, it was very inspiring to me. My friend mentioned to the author Jimmy Soni who is her friend and he shipped me a signed copy 🥹

It blows my mind that based on observations only 5% of the universe is made up of conventional matter (e.g. atoms, molecules, etc)! Dark matter makes up 26% (doesn't emit any electromagnetic radiation) and dark energy is 69% (no gravitational effect, also no EM radiation)

Finished reading first of my physics textbooks University Physics by Young and Freedman! For self studying, thought the core material (mechanics, E&M, etc) were fantastic. Lots of great explanations and examples. Felt modern physics (quantum, nuclear, etc) wasn't detailed enough

Watching my friend's biomedical engineering PhD dissertation defense right now on Zoom. So exciting but also I have absolutely no idea what he is talking about and got lost on slide 1 lol

Started intro to particle physics and it's the most new terms I've had to learn (e.g. pions, leptons, hadrons, baryons, strangeness, charm, etc) Also entertained reading things like "the gluon is absorbed by the antiblue antiquark, which becomes an antired antiquark"

Blood on the clocktower spotted at a board game cafe in Asheville. So fun! Learned about it from @v when we played at the Farcaster team offsite and have been wanting to play again

I'm enjoying calculus so much more in the context of relearning and using it for physics. It's helpful and motivating for me to have much more concrete and applicable reasons to use it when solving equations and understanding how a system behaves

Went on my first ever foraging trip in Asheville, North Carolina!

I really appreciate when companies that wind down or pivot share their learnings on why it didn't work for them. Of course lots of different factors at play but potentially helps save time for other founders and build up a public knowledge base of potential traps to avoid

I knew fostering a puppy would be tough but my goodness is it a nonstop. But he's so damn cute and sweet and went from being so scared when arrived to happy over the past few days and it's been worth it! If anyone is interested in adopting Fitz, let me know! :)