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<h2>Gandhi
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<p>My first attempt at drawing after dabbling in caricature pieces in my childhood :)</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-06-09 16:51:23 +0530 IST'>June 9, 2020</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha</footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to Gandhi" href="https://thelazyoxymoron.me/posts/drawings/gandhi/"></a>
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<h2>Oslo, August 31st (2011) by Joachim Trier
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<p>Verdict: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Check out this review on Letterboxd
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Anhedonia. The Wikipedia entry for this word says:
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a diverse array of deficits in hedonic function, including reduced motivation or ability to experience pleasure.
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At one point or another, we have all experienced some version of this phenomenon - may be characterized by an oversaturation of love, or caused by a prolonged mediocrity in life, or as in the case of our protagonist here, the complete loss of will and motivation to feel anything....</p>
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Anhedonia. The Wikipedia entry for this word says:
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a diverse array of deficits in hedonic function, including reduced motivation or ability to experience pleasure.
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At one point or another, we have all experienced some version of this phenomenon - may be characterized by an oversaturation of love, or caused by a prolonged mediocrity in life, or as in the case of our protagonist here, the complete loss of will and motivation to feel anything....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-06-04 14:39:00 +0530 IST'>June 4, 2020</span> · 4 min · Siddhartha</footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to Oslo, August 31st (2011) by Joachim Trier" href="https://thelazyoxymoron.me/posts/cinema/oslo-august/"></a>
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<p>Check it out on Goodreads
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How to fool the world and become a Billionaire I remember hearing about Elizabeth Holmes when I was in my late teens, at that impressionable age when you get hyper-inspired by reading about icons that are going to change the world. There was a profile of her in Wired, with an eye-catching image of her wearing a turtleneck black sweater holding what looked like a test-tube with a tiny amount of blood with a science-y background....</p>
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How to fool the world and become a Billionaire I remember hearing about Elizabeth Holmes when I was in my late teens, at that impressionable age when you get hyper-inspired by reading about icons that are going to change the world. There was a profile of her in Wired, with an eye-catching image of her wearing a turtleneck black sweater holding what looked like a test-tube with a tiny amount of blood with a science-y background....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-05-01 23:39:18 +0530 IST'>May 1, 2020</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha</footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to Bad Blood by John Carreyrou" href="https://thelazyoxymoron.me/posts/reading/bad-blood/"></a>
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<p>Check it out on Instagram
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I’m scared.
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I’m scared.
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No, not because there’s a pandemic going on,
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even though that itself is enough
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to make one lose their mind.
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<p>Check it out on Goodreads
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A disappointing jumble of thoughts Disappointed.
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A disappointing jumble of thoughts Disappointed.
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I am an atheist interested in the power of mindfulness and the whole world of so-called spirituality, so naturally, I am the ideal audience that Sam Harris is looking for. But it disappointed in almost every domain that I had expectations in. Using deep-sounding difficult words and wrapping them in an almost mythical aura of “Consciousness”, this one was a huge letdown....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-04-15 23:31:08 +0530 IST'>April 15, 2020</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha</footer>
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<p>Check it out on Goodreads
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World history in a nutshell More than 1100 pages, this behemoth of a book still fails to capture the whole essence of world history - and rightly so. How can you combine over 2000 years of human history and still do justice to every element? But the unique manner in which this book - or more appropriately, collection of letters - has been written, it shines brightly amongst the plethora of history books you can find on this vast subject of world history....</p>
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World history in a nutshell More than 1100 pages, this behemoth of a book still fails to capture the whole essence of world history - and rightly so. How can you combine over 2000 years of human history and still do justice to every element? But the unique manner in which this book - or more appropriately, collection of letters - has been written, it shines brightly amongst the plethora of history books you can find on this vast subject of world history....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-03-12 23:23:19 +0530 IST'>March 12, 2020</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha</footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to Glimpses of World History by Jawaharlal Nehru" href="https://thelazyoxymoron.me/posts/reading/glimpses-of-world-history/"></a>
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<p>Verdict: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Check out this review on Letterboxd
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You can spot Wes Anderson trademark from a mile ago, although this is the only movie by him which left me dissatisfied. The unique and swift camera movements are still there, the colors still pop out like from another universe, the absurd comic timings still bring a smile to your face - but you won’t feel the kind of personal emotional investment into the characters like you would in the rest of his filmography....</p>
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You can spot Wes Anderson trademark from a mile ago, although this is the only movie by him which left me dissatisfied. The unique and swift camera movements are still there, the colors still pop out like from another universe, the absurd comic timings still bring a smile to your face - but you won’t feel the kind of personal emotional investment into the characters like you would in the rest of his filmography....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-03-04 23:01:15 +0530 IST'>March 4, 2020</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha</footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to The Darjeeling Limited (2007) by Wes Anderson" href="https://thelazyoxymoron.me/posts/cinema/darjeeling/"></a>
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<p>Check it out on Goodreads
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Reasons you should read this book:
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If you’ve ever had a panic attack. If you’ve ever counted the number of times the ceiling fan rotates, just so you could avoid dealing with the endless voices in your head. If you’ve ever felt ashamed to admit that you might be suffering from the D-word. If reading about personal stories of how people overcame their mental illnesses soothes you....</p>
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Reasons you should read this book:
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If you’ve ever had a panic attack. If you’ve ever counted the number of times the ceiling fan rotates, just so you could avoid dealing with the endless voices in your head. If you’ve ever felt ashamed to admit that you might be suffering from the D-word. If reading about personal stories of how people overcame their mental illnesses soothes you....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-01-28 22:28:18 +0530 IST'>January 28, 2020</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha</footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig" href="https://thelazyoxymoron.me/posts/reading/reasons-to-stay-alive/"></a>
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<p>Check it out on Goodreads
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I have been a lover of music since my early childhood - runs in the family - and have imitated and performed songs (mostly inside my own head) on numerous occasions. Despite this lifelong love affair with music of all kinds, there was one particular genre of music that always baffled me. Mostly because of my own ignorance, but partially also because nobody else was talking about it....</p>
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I have been a lover of music since my early childhood - runs in the family - and have imitated and performed songs (mostly inside my own head) on numerous occasions. Despite this lifelong love affair with music of all kinds, there was one particular genre of music that always baffled me. Mostly because of my own ignorance, but partially also because nobody else was talking about it....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-01-16 22:05:06 +0530 IST'>January 16, 2020</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha</footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to How to Listen to and Understand Great Music by Robert Greenberg" href="https://thelazyoxymoron.me/posts/reading/great-music/"></a>
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There are few books which leave you in a mesmerizing state after having read them. You ponder about it for days to come, want to scream your head off about it to anyone who’d listen, and then dwell in this fear of picking up another book because how can something else ever come close to being this perfect! I have felt this way before - first when I’d finished The Complete Sherlock Holmes, later when I was left in a daze for multiple days after finishing the notorious and brilliant House of Leaves, and much more recently when I was unable to sleep after reading Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker....</p>
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There are few books which leave you in a mesmerizing state after having read them. You ponder about it for days to come, want to scream your head off about it to anyone who’d listen, and then dwell in this fear of picking up another book because how can something else ever come close to being this perfect! I have felt this way before - first when I’d finished The Complete Sherlock Holmes, later when I was left in a daze for multiple days after finishing the notorious and brilliant House of Leaves, and much more recently when I was unable to sleep after reading Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2019-09-12 20:12:10 +0530 IST'>September 12, 2019</span> · 6 min · Siddhartha</footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky" href="https://thelazyoxymoron.me/posts/reading/behave-review/"></a>
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Started with a tightly-knit structure, but faltered at the end. The last few chapters were a slog to get through - mostly because of numerous “business-class” style case studies.
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Main takeaway? Other than the central idea around which the book revolves (and succinctly mentioned as the book subtitle too), the idea of interleaving is what struck me the most. I had already read about this particular method in Michael Nielsen’s brilliant post on Anki (“Augmenting Long-term Memory”) and it was interesting to read about it formally in the book....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2019-09-05 00:16:14 +0530 IST'>September 5, 2019</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha</footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to Range by David Epstein" href="https://thelazyoxymoron.me/posts/reading/range-a-review/"></a>
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