Reading: The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichi Yukishiro
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A Year of Mornings
A collection of fifty love poems that follows a young heart as it finds love, finds the strength to be in love and finally, finds the strength to let go.
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I am a platform engineer and a writer based in Finland.
I am the author of A Year of Mornings, a collection of poems for young adults.
NordLetter
I send out a newsletter once a week about living in Finland + five interesting things I've found on the open web.
Lately
Everything, as it happens — from the garden, the stream, and the Nordletter.
July 2026
Finished: The Complete Guide to Fasting
Jason Fung, Jimmy Moore · Liked it
Zettelkasten
"Slip-box" Zettel -- note/slip Kasten -- chest/box It was developed by Niklas Luhmann, who gave credit for his extensive output to his Zettlekasten. The idea…
The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired
If you're feeling like your work is simultaneously more productive and less satisfying, you're not broken. The feedback loop is broken. And I think we need to start treating that as an engineering problem in its own right, not a personal failure.
The people who are finding their footing right now seem to share a few traits: they have strong opinions earned through practice, they can distinguish between principles that still apply and habits that were just bandwidth constraints, and they're willing to evolve their workflow without abandoning their standards.
NL 114
Football and Me
Hello from my home in Helsinki! This is NordLetter 114, a weekly newsletter on living and walking in Finland. Each week I share some of the interesting things I found on the web. To follow the series, you can subscribe…
England won. You don't usually get free scoring games like this in the World Cup. Teams set up more defensive usually. I knew after that first half everyone will say the same thing - why did Tuchel not start Rashford and Saka in that game against Argentina? Who knows?
I think in games that matter, coaches are happy winning 1-0.
Hunger Starts in the Mind
From The Complete Guide to Fasting. We have a bunch of conditioned responses to triggers like a thought of watching a movie, or a football match. The sizzling…
Nature and Renewal
A thing I’ve been doing for a long time is add any books I wanted to read in Reminders app. The problem was I read in a different place, created notes in a different place and so on.
Today, I solved some of it, by adding a to-be-read queue to my website.
Mostly for tracking books, but also movies, shows and games.
Watched: Formula 1: Drive to Survive · Season 8
James Gay Rees · Liked it
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