Mental health, thanks to The Blindboy Podcast, books on cognitive behavior therapy & transactional analysis, and a counselor who I pay their attention, consideration, and advice on other books to read (I find information from Blindboy and books the most actionable, and a counselor is a helpful reality-check so I don’t get lost in the weeds of exploration at the cost of iterating out of challenges I have some agency about).<p>Also learning about complexity science, ecology, and human culture over millennia.
The limits of empathy.<p>I got into a situation with a friend who I now assume has ADHD. I’d not noticed before, because our circumstances didn’t reveal it. We were just dog owners, and our dogs were friends.<p>Then I invited her to stay at my beach house for a week, in gratitude for her minding my dog.<p>While there, she initiated significant renovations, ripping up the carpet, removing the vertical blinds.<p>But she didn’t finish most of the tasks! 3 weeks later the curtains were only half done and the place was unrentable.<p>Her response? Start new projects, also incomplete.<p>I tried to understand through empathy, but I realised I’m not able to imagine what’s going on in her thoughts.<p>Maybe that’s always the way. I’m thinking empathy is only really possible when you’re sure the other person thinks the same as you.<p>I’d never recognised the need to calibrate this.
Fungi and mushrooms! I watched Fantastic Fungi on Netflix this week, bought a bunch of books on the topic, and am <i>super excited</i> to start learning about and cultivating mushrooms.
- Tensor calculus, Differential Geometry (and in so doing, also trig, single/mv calc, linear algebra...algebra...)<p>- Cuda, physically based rendering<p>- ML<p>- All things related to home ownership (holy crap there's a lot!)<p>- How to manage adhd<p>- Interpersonal and relationship skills
Pre-algebra now -> algebra soon.<p>Decided that I'm going to go study CS this year and realised that I don't remember a thing from HS math.
Behavioral biology. Watching Standford lectures on YT how mono/poligamy, being gay etc. are biology based (different sizes of brain parts, different number of receptors for X etc., animal models, humam studies).