The aim of this blog is to keep a journal of activities I wish to pursue. As I have found it hard to stick with a book, a course, a personal project, I herein set out to keep a journal of said enterprises in the vain hope that such record will help maintaining focus and, even if not uninterrupted, keeping track allows (hopefully) switching between interest with reduced overhead.

A major issue I face when trying to stay with a specific venture is the abundance of interesting things one may pick up, books of essays, articles, projects and endeavours that lay at one’s very fingertips. I have five books open at the moment strewn across my desk, these being:

• Brothers Strugatsy’s Doomed City (in Russian)
• Georges Simenon’s Yellow Dog (in French)
• Camus’ Plague (in French – probably the books I am through the most)
• A collection of essays by Paul Valery (just started – in French again)
• A murder of quality by John Le Carre

So, what interests, strides are to be covered by this journal – what ideas thus enclosed, what aims to be set forth?

• I want to self study math – the idea would be to start with an exercise a day (or a couple per week) from Rudin’s analysis
• I want to learn web dev (whatever end) – thus also this blog, with its rudimentary theme to be developed by myself.
• I want to do something with C++ – no clear idea yet how or what
• I want to combine the math with the programming to endevour into data science
• and a million things more…

I would also like to work with tools, and by so doing acquire the skill to use:

• Emacs for org mode, org mode for org roam (?)
• Neovim for everything else
• Arch Linux
• Hardware building (a first endeavour building my own split keyboard was a mixed success)

Last but not least, I wish to pursue creative outlets – my main hobby is film photography, but I also want to pick up drawing again.

So, here goes. The blog is up for a year as paid in advance. Let’s see how far I get.