Experiments for efficency

  I Had No Idea, But I Unmuted Anyway Most people don’t unmute during webinars. You know that silence when the host asks, “Any questions?” and nobody wants to risk sounding stupid? Yeah. I was 12, in 7th grade, sitting on the floor with my laptop, surrounded by half-finished robotics parts and cold chai, when I unmuted in front of 500 people. How It All Started Back in 6th grade, I was just messing around with mBlock, building robots that beeped and bumped into walls, convincing myself I was cool af. I didn’t really know what I was doing, but I loved the feeling of making something move because I told it to. Then came 7th grade and Raspberry Pi. Python was like this alien language that I wanted to crack just so I could say, “Yeah, I code in Python.” I’d copy-paste commands, break things, fix them, break them again, and watch YouTube tutorials at 2 AM with that single headphone so no one at home knew I was still awake. The Webinar I started attending every free webinar I ...

 I stopped blogging a few months ago. At first, it was because I didn’t feel like writing much. Or maybe I didn’t feel like putting something truly mine out into the world. There’s a certain vulnerability that comes with sharing your words, even if no one is reading them. But lately, I’ve been wanting to write again. Not for an audience, not for validation, but for myself. So, if you’re somehow here, reading this, consider it a quiet update I’m giving to myself, so that future me can look back and see how I was living and thinking in July 2025. I shifted schools recently. And surprisingly, I’ve adjusted well. The new environment is refreshing, and I’ve made some really good friends—people who feel like warm cups of tea on a tired evening, people with whom silences aren’t awkward but comforting. In this process, I learned something: friendship can’t be measured by how long it lasts . When I was younger, I believed in “best friends forever.” But I’ve realized that “forever” ca...