... bahasa-nya lirih namun maknanya menggema dalam diam seseorang membaca
Terkadang aku menyebut kata dan kalimatnya ketika membaca agar maknanya bisa lebih ku dengar, namun tetap, tidak semua dapat ku serap
- Jakarta, 7 Jun 26
Kahlil Gibran- Almustafa
Sebuah buku sastra yang aku tidak dapat mengerti makna dibaliknya, kata-kata nya puitis nan elok tersusun dalam untaian rapi berbaris dalam paragraf
Terdapat kalimat menggambarkan keadaan seseorang dimana aku bisa berempati dengan suasananya, ...
repetition rewires your brain more than motivation ever will. not in some fake “just think positive and the universe will fix your life” way. i mean in a very real biological way. your brain is constantly adapting to whatever you repeatedly think, feel, and do. most people don’t realize this because they assume their personality is fixed. they think their habits, mindset, confidence, anxiety, even the way they see the world is just “who they are.” but a huge part of it is actually conditioning. your brain is always listening to what you repeat.
most people spend their entire day reinforcing stress without even noticing it. they wake up and immediately check their phone. compare themselves to strangers online. replay old mistakes. overthink conversations. expect bad outcomes before anything even happens. and because the brain learns through repetition, those thoughts slowly become its default setting. the brain starts scanning the world for more proof that those fears are true. more problems. more reasons to doubt yourself. more evidence that life is against you.
that’s the scary part about neuroplasticity. your brain does not really care whether the pattern is helping you or hurting you. it doesn’t automatically separate good patterns from bad ones. it just adapts to what you consistently repeat. repeat stress and your brain becomes better at felling anxious, repeat self doubt and insecurity starts feeling natural, repeat distraction and your attention span weakens. whatever you feed your mind daily becomes stronger.
but the opposite is true too.
when you start focusing on growth, gratitude, discipline, your brain slowly begins reshaping itself around those things too. and no, it doesn’t happen overnight. at first it feels unnatural because your old patterns are still stronger. but over time your brain starts changing what it notices automatically. you begin seeing opportunities you would’ve ignored before. small wins start feeling bigger. challenges stop feeling like proof that you’re failing and start feeling like part of the process.
one of the most underrated things you can do is deliberately reinforce good experiences. when something good happens, pause for a second and actually feel it. your brain remembers what carries emotional weight. that’s why negative experiences stick so easily. but if you consciously hold onto positive moments too, your brain starts building stronger pathways around them.
your mind becomes whatever it practices most. so be careful what you keep giving your attention to cause whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.
Despite all the debates on how Singapore not able to "deliver" something to the world
It's still an interesting story to understand LKY's story turning Singapore as 1st world country
So many product teams are stuck in “implementation hell".
Long timelines, creeping scope, poorly designed software.
It took me 6 years to realize the real problem: poor shaping.
Here’s the playbook from Basecamp I wish I had back then. Learn the key ideas in 4 minutes:
@thekitze I'm using LLMs all day long, but I'm not letting it write my code. It's looking up APIs, it's explaining concepts, but I want to reserve the fun part of programming for myself: Actually writing code!
Most PMs think "managing up" means clearer updates and better alignment.
Wrong.
You’re treating your manager like a stakeholder instead of your highest-leverage product bet.
Flip this mindset, and everything changes.
Let me show you how in 2 minutes.
you can take advantage of the fact that javascript maps preserves their keys in insertion order to build a really simple LRU cache in 40 lines of code
don't npm install the world
"Behind every open-source project is a human being with limited time and energy, often working without compensation or recognition."
Interesting article by @trevorlasn: https://t.co/P91g3dhuhV
Not how so many of these agentic editors are forks of Visual Studio Code.
On first glance, you might not understand why this is important.
1. Forks from VS Code are not allowed to access the VS Code Marketplace. Those that are: they are violating the TOS. And some already are!
Introducing Xcrapper 🥳
"Scrape X(formerly Twitter) data from search"
1. Search a keyword
2. Scroll all the content you want to scrape
3. Export as CSV
No API needed, all runs in your browser
anything you can read, Xcrapper can scrape
dm me if you want to try out 📩
Publishing my first NPM package simple-timer
A simple and flexible timer library for Node.js that has pause, resume, restart and stop functionality with TypeScript support.
- Typescript Support ⭐️
https://t.co/47gAi8nvVt
Give it a try, any feedback would be really appreciated
Introducing Scribe — the most accurate Speech to Text model.
It has the highest accuracy on benchmarks, outperforming previous state-of-the-art models such as Gemini 2.0 and OpenAI Whisper v3.
It’s now the leading model for English, Spanish, Italian, and many more. With support for 99 languages, speaker diarization, character-level timestamps, and non-speech events such as laughing.