Life: Designed

Intro to Graduate Studies

  • Always On: How Burnout Clashes with Creativity and Productivity

    Over the past seven weeks, I’ve been diving into the topic of deep work.  I’ve read the entirety of Johann Hari’s book Stolen Focus, which really opened my eyes to the attention crisis going on today in our age of screens. I learned about how everything around us affects our ability to focus, from the amount of…

  • Curiosity Saved the Cat

    Curiosity isn’t dangerous. Quite the opposite, actually. It’s so important. It’s crucial for focus and essential for learning.  Today, however, it can be seen as dangerous. Creators branch out and try something new, and the algorithm punishes them for it. We act outside the norm, and we’re seen as odd. Kids are playing less and less, and they’re not discovering as much about the world. …

  • So Much to Do

    One of the goals I set for myself when I did my digital detox from Instagram and TikTok was to finish my work before 11 PM. That didn’t happen once. I think one night I was up past 2 AM reading, trying to retain as much information as possible for my quiz the next day.  I needed to do…