RIFT Notes is one of the best recent discovery apps I’ve come across. It has the potential to replace Drafts (which is not file-based markdown) as my daily logging once it is released. You can join the beta right now.
📝 My Stoic Journal: Week 2 Focus on What Is Completely in Your Control
This week, the exercise focuses on the concept of aversion, which can be seen as a type of desire, as in the desire to avoid misfortune. People have very different reactions to similar misfortunes, and the reason is that some people are better at redirecting the aversion away from things that they …
Memoir of a Snail, 2024 - ★★★★½
“Life can only be understood backwards, but we have to live it forwards.” Memoir of a Snail is a beautiful way to honor Søren Kierkegaard’s philosophy. Particularly in the opening scene where we wouldn’t understand the significance of things on the floor until we later learned about their history. …
My Stoic Journal: Week 1 – Starting a Stoic Journal in 2025
I purchased A Handbook for New Stoics by Massimo Pigliucci about four years ago, alongside The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday. Start my day with The Daily Stoic, then end my day with A Handbook for New Stoics For the past four years, I have read The Daily Stoic every morning. It has grounded me each …
Tetris, 2023 - ★★★½
Who would have thought that a game as simple as Tetris could have such a wild and complicated origin story involving business deals and politics? I do think it could’ve leaned into the gaming elements a bit more—maybe with some visuals or nods to the actual gameplay—but it was still super …
Kraven the Hunter, 2024 - ★★★
The film is visually appealing, but it misses the mark by failing to capitalize on the atmosphere of intense hunting, instead relying on generic chase scenes. It’s also puzzling how they cut scenes to avoid gruesome content, despite being an R-rated movie. There’s an interesting moral dilemma at …
📝 Making Life Matter—Awesome and Extraordinary Life Starts With Now
We want our lives to matter, but when we are among billions of billions of people, it’s challenging to feel like our existence truly matters. I mean, whatever we think, do, or say would be just a speck of dust in the grand scheme of the universe, and even just an unrecognizable blip in the entire …
📝 Weathering the Storms of Life
Weather is something we can never be absolutely certain about until we actually experience it. We can guess, predict, and forecast, but weather always moves to its own rhythm, whether we like it or not. Even our most accurate forecasts can't always pinpoint how the weather will unfold or …
⚒️ Default Apps for 2024
I’ve been wanting to write about my most used apps for so long but didn’t have enough motivation to do so, until I came across this directory of apps people commonly use. Inspired by this, I’ve decided to compile a list of my default apps. Prioritize Native Apps, then Fantastic Updates for New OS …
📝 A New Path to Self-Trust
I’ve realized that I never fully trust myself. It’s a feeling I’ve carried since childhood. I often find myself uncertain and indecisive, thinking too much and doubting my choices even more. As a result, I tend to hold back and take very little action. I constantly worry that I’ll mess everything up …
Mufasa: The Lion King, 2024 - ★★★½
I appreciate how this prequel reveals the depth of its characters, particularly the relationship between Mufasa and Taka. This adds complexity to the overall story and allows for greater empathy towards each character. While Mufasa is portrayed as a great leader, I found myself more drawn to Taka’s …
The Wallpaper 00004-Say Thanks to Your Past Self
As the year draws to a close, it’s the perfect time to conclude the year with a positive and meaningful reflection on all the experiences we’ve had and the person we’ve evolved throughout the year. Embracing this moment of gratitude, I’ve coined the phrase “Say Thanks to Your Past Self” for my …
Fly Me to the Moon, 2024 - ★★★
The movie was light, fun, and cute. The cast carried the movie with their charms, making it a heartwarming and entertaining experience, even with its thin plot.
Hunger, 2023 - ★★★½
“Is it expensive because it’s special, or is it special because it’s expensive?” This movie certainly drew inspiration from popular films, which I don’t mind as long as it’s well-executed and not blatantly copying the sources. Fortunately, this movie avoids that pitfall in my eyes. Apart from the …
My Hero Academia: You're Next, 2024 - ★★★½
"My Hero Academia: You’re Next" When you ran out of ideas, you resorted to using the GOAT—Fullmetal Alchemist—as a source of inspiration! And wow, was that a quiz scene where you had to list as many USA states as possible? LOL On a more serious note though, I liked this one better than the previous …
Wicked, 2024 - ★★★★
I finished watching *Wicked*, and it was an absolute blast! I felt like I was defying gravity and soaring through the air when it ended! I was only familiar with a couple of songs from the movie, like ‘Popular’ and ‘Defying Gravity,’ so I wasn’t expecting the whole experience to be so immersive. But …
The Joy of Eating: A Reflection
Why do we enjoy eating so much? I think it’s because it’s one of the few pleasures derived from engaging our senses in a way that requires intention. It’s the sensory that needs to be sought after. While we see, hear, smell, and touch things involuntarily throughout the day, tasting is an experience …
Gladiator II, 2024 - ★★★½
Gladiator II I can’t believe a movie about people fighting inside the Colosseum could be this bland! I could (unwillingly) overlook the poor writing, underdeveloped characters, and over-the-top scenes. But how could they make the action sequences so boring and uninspiring? The fight choreography was …
Wolfs, 2024 - ★★★½
It’s nothing special but I had a good time anyway.
Can I Write My Way Out of Problems?
When I'm lost in the abyss of life’s complexities, is it possible to use my own words as a vehicle for insight and write my way out on my own? Or, even better, can I harness my thoughts through writing to illuminate my path toward wisdom? How can one write to light up their whole world? I …
Anora, 2024 - ★★★★
Mikey Madison deserves the Best Actress nomination for this! After watching this film, I was captivated by the concept of a Cinderella tale that gets slapped back to reality, serving as a harsh cautionary tale instead. It's undeniably tragic and sometimes even traumatizing, yet you—and possibly …
White Bird, 2023 - ★★★★
"You forget many things in life, but you'll never forget kindness." I had already read both the book and the graphic novel, but this movie still managed to hit me hard—like, crying-a-lot kind of hard. While the ending felt somewhat lazy in its writing—similar to the book version—I found that I …
We Live in Time, 2024 - ★★★½
I had high hopes for "We Live In Time" when I first saw the star-studded cast attached to it, but I walked out feeling a bit let down. The idea of a non-linear timeline is super intriguing, but the execution? Not so much. It felt like a clunky shuffle through a random reel of moments rather than a …
Digging Up Your Mind: A Discovery Through Writing
Writing is a journey of discovery, you won’t know what will emerge on the page until you put the words down. Writing is like digging into your mind; you only see what’s truly inside once you start to excavate and examine it for yourself. No one—not even you—knows exactly how your current writing …
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