Saqib's unfiltered notes

One sentence that made everything else make sense.

One thing I refuse to let go despite all the chaos

Wind, a cable car tilting sideways, and a day spent chasing gardens

When you watch a movie without a trailer first

Life can be simpler than we make it

What's left of your real voice after years of trying to sound correct.

Say the outrageous thing. Push away the wrong people. See who's left.

What I found when I finally asked myself what I'm really afraid of.

Giving myself permission to slow down before 40 forces me to.

Under all the wanting, mansions, fame, money, there's just one thing we're actually after.

Your brain has a trick for looking productive without ever doing the work.

What I've learned from obsessing over people who don't deserve the space in my head.

Kafka died poor, unknown, and unfinished. I keep wondering what my version of that looks like.

Why I cancelled Whoop after two years

I've been running on all fumes for too long

The life I want is the life you have, until I find out what it actually costs.

A short story

The war I must win

My bike drowned in a flash flood and I called it the best day of my year.

What creativity requires of you

Stack of habits with massive upside potential

Do you even know what you want and why?

Things I wish someone taught me before I learned them the hard way

Ali said: I'ma show you how great I am

When it can become a crutch

Nine rules that made hard decisions easier when emotions clouded everything else.

Your life today is just the accumulated interest on habits you've already been running.

Seven things quietly running your life while you blame everything else.

I made $2 an hour, felt like the richest man alive, and stayed underpaid for a year and a half because of it.

How to push through the blank phase

What I learned about wasted time from losing arguments I thought I was winning.

The story you can have once your strip away the rewards

A poem from a dark place

I keep asking what's profitable instead of what I actually want, and I think that's the problem.

Do it faster

Why we abandon things right after the dopamine wears off, and what to do instead.

How many promises to myself have I broken this month alone.

A promise

Small wins for giant goals

3am thoughts on perspective, kids I don't have yet, and whether they'll be proud of me.

Failing at something still beats having a decade of nothing to show for it.

Random thoughts I had

A poem

What one page a day, five seconds of movement, and an audience of one add up to.