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side quest: find the mistake in that limit problem-its such a stupid mistake

september 4th however was crazy af

i spent the first half (after uni) setting up my linux devbox

learned about ansible, gnu stow and a bunch of dev prod stuff

setup my zsh and terminal the way i wanted ( after a lot of procrastination and resisting the uncomfortableness a bad setup brings )

then after that i took a break and thought about my goals and what i actually wanted ( also spoke to sponge and judah for a while )

after getting clarity on that, a surge of new found energy swept through me

i texted a lot of ppl asking their problems to possible identify problems in their life which i could solve

a guy who helped me back in 2022 gave me an idea, which would only take me a couple of days to build

so i started building that and im almost done

it's basically a chatbot for your telegram gc

im gonna implement caching so that retrieval is fast

and ofc gotta use that 200k context length to the fullest so im optimizing the prompt

forgot that i have school tmrw and im still awake ( it's 6am and i have class in 3 hours )

so fml

anyways today was good, especially after that reprio session

it always feels good when my goals align with what i actually want / makes me happy

idk why it's so hard to simple "choose" that

imo it was mostly bcoz of societal ( aka tpot ) pressure but i need to stop letting that easily change what i believe in

anyways

  • i need to write august share holder letter soon

well bros september 3rd was very meh tbh

i did some work but felt like shit

mostly because of unaligned goals

then i was just reading random shit, playing chess and geoguessr until i fell asleep

shit i was so sleepy to update yesterday

  • hectic class schedule
  • figured i could switch to uiuc after first year
  • made a pact to not make money next month
  • made a plan to focus on learning
  • consulting work
  • homework
  • a very good workout + basketball game
  • bought a electric scooter
  • a lot of reflection and mental therapy before sleeping

first day of school went hard

i went for a run after getting 3 hours of sleep and the city was soo beautiful

then attended a bunch of classes

came back did some work between them and slept at like 7:30pm

  • profs here are so chill
  • you can feel the billions in the city
  • too much freedom

wassup kings

today was a bunch of cooking cleaning and shopping

excited for tmrw cuz ill be going to "college" for the first time in my life

  • did laundry and paid 4$
  • grocery and snacks for 110$
  • basketball, some tools and water filter for 60$
  • screentime 2 hrs
  • gonna sleep after reading

i want to document my progress ( https://lelouch.dev/blog/documenting-your-grind/ )

so im going to post these updates everyday

i already document most of these things privately, but with 0 accountability so there are long stretches of days with little to no effort from my side to write it down

maybe this will make me be more consistent since there's a reason to "ship"


things im currently working on which ill document about:

  1. building and contributing to onchain projects ( primarily on solana )
  2. increasing mrr outside of consulting ( which is how i earn right now ) - crypto yield, info products, productized service from (1), content...
  3. core cs / math to increase skill and be able to do bigger things in the future
  4. actually start reading stuff ( i hate reading but trying to change that )