"If I'm worth something later, I'm worth something now"

-Vincent Van Gogh

There are moments in life when everything feels blurry your career, your direction, even your sense of self. You’re moving, but you’re not sure if you’re moving forward. You’re growing, but you can’t tell if it’s in the right direction And that confusion It’s not failure. It’s the beginning of awareness.

As we grow, our values shift. Our goals become louder. Our tolerance for chaos becomes smaller. And the books we read whether it’s self-development, psychology, leadership, or philosophy start to act like quiet mirrors. They show us who we are becoming too slowly to notice, and who we don’t want to be anymore.

Sometimes a book pushes you to question your career ,Sometimes it forces you to confront habits you avoided,Sometimes it makes you realize you deserve better in work, in people, in life.

And that’s where the real confusion starts. Because once you see more, you can’t unsee it. And once you grow internally, your external world must catch up. Personal development is messy. You don’t wake up motivated every day. You don’t get immediate clarity. You don’t feel strong throughout the process.

But you do evolve.

And one day, you look back and realize the confusion was the turning point the bridge between your old self and the person you’re trying to become.

Sometimes you want things to work out just for the sake of giving good news to the people who are rooting for you

ONE DOWN!

Man what a ride. Honestly I didnt think a book about a bunch of guys chasing a whale could be this epic.

Yes its long and yeah Melville really loves his chapters on the anatomy of a whale and the different ways to render oil. You'll definitely want to skim those parts. But when you hit the narrative sections especially anything involving Captain Ahab its electric.

Ahab isnt just a captain hes a magnificent terrifying obsession walking around on a wooden leg. His fury toward Moby Dick isnt about profit its pure destructive madness. The real brilliance of the book is how it turns the hunt for a literal white whale into a hunt for everything. God, fate, revenge and the unknowable malice of the universe.

And Quiqueg. Hes the best. That weird wonderful friendship he has with Ishmael the narrator is the human heart of the story that keeps the heavy philosophical stuff from dragging you under.

Its an adventure story a technical manual and a deep meditation on obsession all rolled into one. Just brace yourself for the detours and enjoy the insane glorious chase. Its a classic for a reason.

I rate all books relative to the brothers karamazov because it is a 10 for me. I'd say Moby Dick is 7.5/10. Good read overall.

Love wins when it is more of a commitment than it is feelings.

Feelings are transient, fickle, fleeting and more often cant be a reason relationships last longer.

*at least not alone

And im going to disable that dislike emoji... not because i want to be right all the time but because it is clearly out of naivety or hate that you guys are disliking, have some brain.

Doing Advent of code for the first time

Advent of Code 2025 - Day 1 Complete

Just finished Day 1. The puzzle was about a safe with a dial. The dial has numbers 0 to 99 and starts at 50. We get instructions like "L68" (turn left 68 clicks) or "R48" (turn right 48 clicks).

Part 1

Count how many times the dial is pointing at 0 after finishing each move. Simple: track position, check if it's 0, count.

My answer: 964.

Part 2

Here it got more interesting. We need to count every time the dial shows 0 during the whole move, not just at the end.

Example: If you turn right 1000 clicks from position 50, you pass through 0 ten times while turning.

For right turns, I calculated how many multiples of 100 we cross (each time we cross, we hit 0). For left turns, I simulated each click because the math with negative numbers and wrapping was messy.

The rem_euclid() (in rust) function helps with the wrap-around (0 → 99 when going left). Had to be careful with counting when starting at 0 or ending at 0.

Good first day. Part 1 was easy. Part 2 made me think about the difference between "during" and "after". The puzzle had a little joke: "method 0x434C49434B" is hex for "CLICK" :)

Ready for Day 2.

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Repo:

https://github.com/HenokNets/Advent-Of-Code-2025

This is basic calculator. The four arithmetic operators, precedence and unary operations work. I was going to add trig functions and factorial... but i cant still wrap my head around AST ( will complete the project another time). It was just a learning project tho.

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how" Nietzsche

You know how bees make their honeycomb with all those perfect six sided shapes? For thousands of years, smart mathematicians actually argued about why! They called it the Honeycomb Conjecture (a fancy name for a really old mystery).

It turns out, the hexagon is the absolute best shape for saving material while holding the most stuff. Think of it like this: for the least amount of wax (the walls of the cell), the bees get the biggest possible space inside to store their honey.

Its the same smart idea you see in nature with bubbles or water drops, which are round. A sphere is the best shape to hold the most liquid with the least amount of skin.

So, these tiny bees, without any math classes, somehow figured out a super clever trick that took humans ages to understand. Pretty amazing, right? It just shows that sometimes, the simplest things in nature are the smartest.

#HoneycombConjecture

Kicking off day 2 of AoC

Day 2 done, solutions are added to the repo

Advent of Code 2025 – Day 2 Summary

The puzzle involved identifying invalid product IDs in a series of numerical ranges. Invalid IDs are defined as numbers formed by repeating a block of digits.

Part 1

An ID is invalid if a block repeats exactly twice. Examples include 11, 6464, and 123123. Instead of iterating over every number, I generated candidate IDs using a repeated-block formula and verified whether they fell within the specified ranges.

Part 2

The criteria expanded: an ID is now invalid if a block repeats two or more times. Examples include 12341234, 123123123, and 1111111. I checked all numbers in the ranges against possible block lengths to identify invalid IDs.

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