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A community which focusses on improving yourself. This can be in many different ways - from improving physical health or appearance, to improving mental health, creating better habits, overcoming addictions, etc.
While material circumstances beyond our control do govern much of our daily lives, people do have agency and choices to make, whether that is as "simple" as disciplining yourself to not doomscroll, to as complex as recreating yourself to have many different hobbies and habits.
This is not a place where all we do is talk about improving "productivity" (in a workplace context) and similar terms and harmful lifestyles like "grindset". Self-improvement here is intended to make you a generally better and happier person, as well as a better communist, and any other roles you may have in your life.
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What I've been doing:
I studied some topology and probability theory. In particular, I revisited Smirnov transform.
Continuing to work on the Blender project.
Have been trying to gain employment. Unsuccessfully so far.
I did not get to trying to read 'Capital' on my own.
I did not resume physical exercise.
Plans for this week:
Keep re-learning math stuff. I nominate probability theory as the sole math focus this week.
I have noticed that I have been neglectful on learning theory regarding software engineering. I will begin reading some textbooks on the matter.
I intend on studying some php stuff.
Fix the Blender model's arm thickness and begin working on the head.
Keep trying to regain employment.
Try to resume physical exercise.
Streaks:
Still touching grass every day.
Duolingo Putonghua 16-day streak after a couple of years of pause.
Resources for others:
I can be your resource if you have math questions. I can also find you actual math resources and textbooks.