This essay about Dhalsim from the Street Fighter series isn't really about Dhalsim from the Street Fighter series! But shh, don't tell anyone that.

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What Playing the Least Popular Street Fighter Character Taught Me About Being Mid
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Adulthood is mostly about ignoring things that make noise.

New LYD essay: “The 4AM Doorbell Olympics.”

A story about insomnia, stolen Nintendo Switches, and learning that sometimes “doing nothing” is the healthiest response imaginable.

You know that thing where you handle the big crisis fine, then fall apart over something tiny?
Just wrote about the day a delayed sandwich almost broke me - and what it taught me about how we actually process stress.
(Spoiler: we're carrying more than we let on)

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🧵 1/4 Republishing one of my favorite old pieces: being 8 years old, Asian American, holding a glass of milk while my parents fought over whether I should drink it.

I just wanted to build a simple Obsidian plugin.
What I ended up with:
– An AI orchestration platform
– 46,081 lines of “vibe-coded” complexity
– A low-grade identity crisis

New post:
How I Turned a Weekend Project into an Existential Crisis open.substack.com/pub/littleye...

New on the blog: Thirty Percent Chance of Being an Earring Holder.

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Got hired at a startup after 435 days of searching. Got fired 11 workdays later.

Turns out they didn’t want thoughtful UX—they wanted a hardcoded demo.
I missed the memo.
They missed the onboarding.

I wrote about it: littleyellowdifferent.substack.com/p/the-happy-...

When is forgetting your keys normal aging versus the start of something worse?

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#BrainHealth #Memory #AgingParents #CognitiveHealth #GenX

Feeling like your notes are a chaotic graveyard of half-finished thoughts? Same. I wrote about how I wrangle my distractible brain into something resembling an effective note-taking system. ADHD-friendly, low-effort, and chaos-resistant.

Read here:
littleyellowdifferent.substack.com/p/note-takin...

1/ wrote about being unemployed for 356 days (yes i'm counting). turns out teaching people how to get jobs doesn't make you immune to not having one yourself. the universe really said "plot twist" huh

The infamous Seagull Story is back - now with 2024 footnotes! It is a tale of high school awkwardness, unrequited crushes, and why you should never eat lunch under seagull flight paths.

Me: "Roast me, ChatGPT."
ChatGPT: Pulls up a PowerPoint of all my flaws and career zigzags.
This week’s blog post is part therapy, part comedy roast. Check it out!
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"Hey ChatGPT, make an image based on what you know about me."

Awesome, but damn, I didn't realize I like air fryers so much.

The more I dive into AI tools, the more I realize how much real human connections matter. I wrote a little something about navigating job hunting in this AI age—spoiler: it involves teaching robots to sound like me so I can talk to actual people. 😂

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1/4 Currently at 303 days of unemployment, so I wrote about using Claude AI to help me find a job, which feels very 2024 in ways both exciting and deeply concerning.

How am I this second? Let’s see: today is my 48th birthday. My mom is having a panic attack because she lost a wallet with, in her words, “hundreds of dollars.”

You start to scold her until you’re reminded that your own car was stolen two weeks ago.

You haven’t worked since January.

But yeah, Sarasti’s right. I’m part of the subset who moved to email newslettters which seem to be the zeitgeist of the moment: littleyellowdifferent.substack.com.

Wait, so this isn't Mastodon? I'm confused.