Saqib's blog

Social media, influencers and endless self-improvement

A mindset shift to be less lonely in the world

Notes after completion of both parts in The Last of Us game

On disrespect, silence, and the cost of not leaving sooner.

The list of checks I go through

Thoughts and ideas this little book inspired

Thoughts on deeper reasons for social politeness

What if I didn't have to put happiness on hold for big moments?

What if your ambition is a way to not think?

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.

Thoughts on why I developed it and how to break free

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

cost of endless pursuit of materialistic possessions

I've been running on all fumes for too long

The ideas stir up again and not for the first time

What I needed to hear but no one told me

If you win your mornings, you win your days

Brand new Whoop experience and hopes to understand my health issues

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.

One of the oldest entries in my journal