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Entry #2: 14/11/25

How to Understand Things

The pressure of fast-paced educational systems don't give us the chance to properly understand anything we're taught, which is crucial to being able to retain and apply that information beyond school. Even worse, they don't teach us how to understand. Instead, they teach us to recite. If you want to strengthen your ability to understand, I recommend reading this. It argues that we have to approach concepts from multiple perspectives to see what it is and isn't, and in doing so, we begin to see the links between these approaches, building a clearer picture of the concept itself.

Entry #1: 14/11/25

An Invitation to a Secret Society

We need more scientists in this world, especially those whose work isn't controlled by a larger institution which prioritises profits and positive progress. Failure is what keeps us going! Failure is what gets us to eventual success! So take that risk professional science strays away from: start that project, study that topic you're interested in, make something stupid, even if you're not a 'scientist', even if it seems unimportant, even if it seems impossible. Join the secret society today!

Credits
Code Tutorial for CRT Effect: Alec Lownes
Code Tutorial for Theme Switcher: Solaria
Font: Le Model D Mono by VileR on Oldschool PC Fonts
GIFs: GifCities, Tenor, and Pinterest

Cool Personal Sites

Art Collectives
Camera Magazine 1922-1981 (physical): featured different photographers and themes in each issue, as well as interviews with these photographers

Blogs
Eternity Chaos: photo blog

Educational
arXiv: database of open-access scientific and mathematical papers
Perseus Digital Library: historical texts
Project Gutenberg: public domain books (mostly classics/older works) to read in browser or download
Solar System Scope: extremely detailed information about celestial bodies displayed in an interactive solar system

Fun Sites
Donnie Darko Website: a recreation of the 2001 Donnie Darko website

Web Design
How to Make a Neocities From Scratch: the video that helped me start learning HTML

Youtube Channels
Fraser Builds: experiments with ancient tools and studies
The Guild of Ambience: human-made ambient music
MallBat: insanely cool cartoons
Norwegian Fireplace and Campfire: ambient videos of real campfires
Stoccafisso Design: tutorials on how to make wooden automata
Tasting History with Max Miller: makes historical food/drink and gives history lessons about them

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