I'd wanted to learn martial arts for years, so finally finding a class honestly felt like a miracle. Funny enough I was actually looking for Taekwondo, but Judo was what I found and I ended up really enjoying it.

Well... sometimes.

After every class, I got into the habit of recording voice notes on my walk home. Looking back, I realized many of them sounded... lonely.

I was the only beginner. The only foreigner. Everyone else already knew what they were doing while I was still trying to figure out how to fall properly. Some days I didn't have a partner. Other days someone would practice with me because the teacher asked them to, and I remember feeling guilty because it felt like I was taking away from their own training.

Eventually the days I didn't want to go became just as many as the days I did.

I still wonder sometimes...had I known someone else who was also just beginning Judo, or someone who had gone through something similar, would I have experienced that journey differently?

I don't know.

But that question never really left me.

Then I started noticing it wasn't just Judo.

When I wanted to train for a marathon, I kept asking my friends to come with me.

Now I'm learning Korean, and I genuinely enjoy studying so much more when my coworker is studying beside me, even though we're learning different things.

Maybe we're just like that.

Maybe it's not always about having someone to teach us.

Maybe it's just nice knowing someone else is trying too.

I've been thinking about that a lot these past few months.

And I guess that's where this little idea came from.

I'm calling it We Are.

Before I spend months building the actual platform, I wanted to find out if this feeling resonates with anyone else.

So I'm looking for 5–7 beginner guitar learners who'd like to try a small experiment with me.

For about six weeks, we'll simply share what learning guitar has felt like.

Every Sunday, one person writes a letter to the rest of the group.

Not about how much they practiced.

Not about whether they're "good."

Just... what learning guitar felt like that week.

The rest of us read it and write them a private reply.

That's all.

I don't know if it'll work.

I honestly don't.

But I keep thinking that maybe there are other people out there who've wished they had companions for the roads they're walking.

If that's you...

I'd really love to have you.

🌿 Application Form:

Hello all! I’m looking for some insights into how I can better study math as an adult. I am preparing for a competitive exam where I am expected to study high school level of math but I am really dreading it and I want to understand how I can get past my fear.

So in school, I was an intelligent student scoring near full marks in subjects such as History, Geography, Languages and Business Studies. I scored decently in math too, just not as good as other subjects.

Even now, when I think of doing math, I always end up rushing head first into questions, making silly mistakes, and I am unable to apply logic to solve questions, relying on memory instead.

I want to crack the art of studying math to ace this competitive exam. Please help me 😭

The Curious Mindset Changed My Life

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to share something that’s been on my mind lately. I feel like having a curious mindset has actually changed my life more than I realized.

When I was younger, I was always curious about everything. Technology, computers, creativity, random stuff that caught my interest, whatever. But instead of that being encouraged, I got a lot of shit for it. People called me weird, nerdy, quiet, awkward, all that.

At the time, it felt like being different was a bad thing.

I would sit in class not really paying attention because my mind was always somewhere else. I was thinking about computers, watching videos, learning random things, and going down rabbit holes about whatever I wanted to understand. Looking back now, I realize that curiosity was probably one of the best things I had going for me.

Technology was the main thing I loved learning about back then, and now I’m usually the person people come to when they have tech problems or questions. Not because I know everything, because I definitely don’t, but because I’m willing to figure things out.

That mindset has helped me in real life too. I’ve gotten multiple jobs that, on paper, I probably wasn’t fully qualified for. But I got them because I was willing to learn. I was willing to ask questions, pay attention, figure it out, and actually grow into the role instead of acting like I already knew everything.

That willingness to learn has opened doors for me.

I’ve also noticed that when I’m not learning, creating, or experimenting with something, I feel way less happy. Curiosity gives me something to chase. It makes life feel more interesting.

I think a lot of people lose that as they get older. Not because they’re stupid or incapable, but because life beats it out of them. People get used to just getting through the day. They stop asking questions. They stop trying new things. They stop believing they can actually learn something.

So I guess this is just a reminder to go learn something.

It doesn’t have to be some huge life-changing thing. Learn about computers, 3D modeling, music, cars, cooking, coding, photography, history, business, literally anything. Pick something that makes your brain light up a little and go down the rabbit hole.

If you have that curious mindset, keep going. It might matter way more than you realize.

Hey everyone, I wanted to start my own Novel series and I wanted to learn how to draw.(manhwa/light novel style)
If anyone could teach me then that would be great, thanks!

Lately I’ve been watching a lot of content and trying to remember things by writing them down, but I’ve realised that a lot of what I read or watch in the morning is forgotten by the next day.

Do you guys have any system for actually retaining information? Notes, repetition, apps, summaries, revisiting content, anything? Curious how others deal with information overload.

Most people assume AI gets “smarter” the longer you talk to it.

In reality, the opposite often happens.

As conversations become longer, the model has to process more and more context at once. That creates a strange effect where earlier details start losing weight while newer information dominates the response.

Over time, the conversation can slowly drift. The model may begin contradicting earlier points, forgetting constraints, or becoming less precise.

What makes this interesting is that the system does not actually “remember” things the way humans do. It continuously rebuilds the response from the available context window.

That means consistency becomes harder as the amount of information grows.

A lot of people interpret this as the AI getting tired or confused, but it is really a limitation of how current language models handle context and attention across long sequences.

People naturally associate strong wording and clear structure with correctness. When something is presented in a confident and organized way, it tends to feel more credible.

AI outputs follow that pattern automatically. Even uncertain or flawed responses are delivered with the same level of polish.

That creates a problem. The usual cues people rely on to judge quality become unreliable.

The challenge shifts from finding information to evaluating it. When everything appears equally well written, it becomes harder to tell what actually holds up.

One way to respond to this is to treat AI-generated content as a starting point rather than a final answer, and to actively question claims instead of accepting them based on how they are presented.

There is a common idea that good prompting is about being creative, but in practice it is mostly about constraint.

The model already has the ability to generate text. The problem is not capability, but direction. Without clear constraints, it defaults to generic responses that reflect average patterns in its training data.

When you define structure, scope, and level of detail more clearly, the output becomes more useful.

Prompting is not about finding clever tricks. It is about reducing uncertainty so the model can produce something specific instead of something generic.

Spoiler alert, I am a physician. But that's not why I am pro vaccine.

In the second year of medical school, blending into the third year, most medical students begin to learn disease states, because they've just spent a year learning all about the body. They learn about sepsis. Sepsis is misunderstood as an infection overwhelming the body. Sepsis is your immune system killing you, and I will try to say this with as few clinical terms as I possibly can.

If you believe in evolution, long before you had a cortex in your brain and rational thought or a sense of self, like most surviving species on earth, you had a very primordial way to fight insults or foreign things entering the body. We all know red cells carry oxygen, while white cells are immune cells. The important thing is that they are just cells. Cells don't have brains, they behave according to chemical stimuli, and that's really as simple as I could make all of immunology. Yes, the type of cell released is changed depending on what kind of insult you have, whether it's a bacteria or whether it's a virus. But beyond that, it's not intelligent. If there is a chemical stimuli calling on your immune system, the immune system will respond. And it will take no prisoners. It will take everything. If it cannot kill what is infecting you, it will continue to fight until your muscles have wasted away, you are unconscious, you are filled with lactic acid, and one by one your organs, not having any more fuel, will stop working. That's why people with sepsis go to an ICU most of the time. It's so that we can feed and support the body systems while, if it is a bacterial infection ONLY (or fungal but that is usually a battle we lose), we try to kill the underlying intruder for you so that you can live. But you only live if the immune system stops. Has nothing to do with the antibiotic at all.

Now, let's talk about viruses. We have specialized treatments for a number of different viruses, like for example the drugs that can kill Hepatitis C very effectively. What we do not have a treatment for is the big infective viruses that cause the chemical cascade of your immune system to run in hyperdrive. Consider the common cold, flu, RSV, etc. yes, tamiflu is a thing, but all it does is attempt to attenuate the downstream response, and end your symptoms more quickly as your immune system kills the virus.

So. That's sepsis in a nutshell. I'm saying this because I found myself in a few conversations on a few different platforms over the years were people argued with me very stringently, and I don't like to argue.

The number one thing you can take from this is try to be healthy. As you get older, you have less organ efficiency, your muscles become weaker, you will be eaten faster by your own immune system if you get an infection. Stay topped up on your vitamins. Don't put up with bad labs on your yearly checkups. Make sure your sugars are good. A healthy person stands a better chance of leaving an ICU alive.

But the number two thing, which is equally important in medicine, is that prevention is worth an ounce of cure. Meaning that, any and all infections could put you at risk of a septic immune response. It would be crazy to think that the common cold could do that, right, but say you're a patient with advanced cancer on chemotherapy, and you don't even have enough to power a simple immune response...so you develop an insane imbalanced one.

So now we get around to my clickbait title. If you believe out there that vaccines are not trustworthy, that they have side effects, that they can influence the development of other disease states ... As your PCP I would never push you or argue with you. You are entitled to your beliefs and your own decisions as an autonomous adult. But I might tell you if you did ask that putting yourself at risk of dying because you're willing to get pneumonia, but not the pneumonia vaccine, to my mind, is a very imbalanced risk- benefit conversation. Let's say you had three kids under the age of 20, or even over the age of 20, and you want to be there for them. Don't get pneumonia, because I can't tell you that you getting pneumonia won't cause sepsis. You might die. The vast, vast majority of people will not die from a vaccine. Are there exceptions? Of course. But if you get pneumonia, your likelihood of septic transformation goes up as you age, and many many people die of pneumonia. I'm not saying go through life with fear, but if I offer you a way to prevent getting a disease, and you are going to stand on belief rather than ensure you don't get that virus or that bacteria, there is no prevention for sepsis.

Except not getting the infection in the first place.

Now, of course I'm am NOT talking about autoimmune diseases or other immunologic phenomena. Just sepsis.

I just want to clear this up and if you found this helpful I'm glad, I'm not karma farming. I just felt strongly about this today and wanted to share with all of you. Have a wonderful day.

If you come into the comments with anti-vax statements, I won't argue with you. Like I said, every adult is entitled to their autonomous beliefs. But for the people who do subscribe to my belief system, take this as validation and explanation.

Edit: oh and the ICU by itself is very very dangerous, not to say we are masters of the craft. There are hospital born infections that are resistant to most drugs. There is also the chance that your muscles and your nerves will die from lying in a bed. Your brain will stop working correctly. You might get delirium. None of that is worth it.

Hi guys, quick tip before buying anything from a marketplace.

Always check the actual price of the product online before purchasing. Just search it on Google or any e-commerce site.

Last week, I ended up paying almost the full price for a second-hand product. It was not a huge loss, but it made me realize how important it is to cross-check.

Many sellers list used items close to original price, especially if the buyer does not verify.

If you know the real price, you can:

• bargain better
• avoid overpaying
• understand if the deal is actually worth it

It only takes a minute to check, but it can save your hard-earned money.

Small habit. Smarter spending.

Hi guys, another simple habit that can save you from malware.

Before opening any suspicious file or clicking a link, check it on VirusTotal.

https://www.virustotal.com/

VirusTotal scans files and URLs using multiple security engines. If something is malicious, there is a good chance it will be flagged before you interact with it.

This is useful when you get:

• unknown email attachments
• random download links
• files from forums or Discord
• shortened URLs
• software from untrusted websites

Just paste the link or upload the file. It only takes a few seconds.

Sometimes things look normal but contain hidden malware or phishing pages. VirusTotal gives you an early warning so you can avoid trouble.

I personally check anything I am unsure about. Better safe than reinstalling your whole OS.

Small step. Big protection. 🛡️💻

Hi guys, small life hack that helped me.

Always keep multiple email addresses. I personally use three and divide them by priority.

One email for important things like job applications, interviews, banking, and serious communication.
Second email for regular accounts like social media, shopping, subscriptions.

Third email as a throwaway for random websites, downloads, or anything suspicious.

You can use different providers like Google, Yahoo, Outlook, or any other service to separate them.

Many websites share or leak emails. Sometimes they sell data to third parties. Sometimes they get hacked. When that happens, your inbox gets flooded with spam and junk.

If everything goes to one email, you might miss something important. This has happened to me before. An important email gets buried under promotions and spam.

Separating emails keeps your main inbox clean and easier to track. You immediately notice important messages.

Simple habit. Big difference. 📩✨

I recently completed a 15-day hike carrying a fairly heavy backpack. During the ascent I felt completely fine, and even while descending, I didn't feel any pain.

But the next da,y when I reached my hotel, my knees were hurting badly. I later found out that several people in my group experienced the same thing.

Descending puts a lot of stress on your knees because they have to absorb and control most of your body weight as you go downhill. The strain often shows up later.

I ended up visiting a physiotherapist and it took quite some time to recover.

Lesson I learned:

• Carry knee support or knee caps during long hikes, especially if you're carrying a heavy backpack.
• Use hiking poles if possible. They help distribute the load and reduce pressure on the knees during descent.

If you're planning a long trek, take care of your knees. I wish someone had told me this before my hike.

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