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👋 Quit my job and moved to Asia. Building a new language learning app: https://yakk.app
🌍 Bangkok
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Happiness is produced by contrast. Fast for 2 days and you'll have the tastiest meal you've ever had. Run 10k and your couch will be like a massage. Maintain the contrast.
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Every time I accidentally kick the magsafe charger out of my laptop, I can't help but smile instead of sigh. Thank god they brought those back.
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I love a good long-distance train journey. I'm about to head back to Bangkok from Chiang Mai via overnight train. The journey is 13 hours, and this train is delightfully old school. I love it.
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One thing I love about the travel lifestyle is that you meet old friends in new places. I've met so many friends in Chiang Mai that I first met in Da Nang. There's something really fun about that happening. It makes the world feel smaller in the ways you want it to be.
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Today I’m spending the day with my Esperanto friend (fun fact: he’s a native speaker), exploring Chiang Mai in the beautiful international language. What are you all up to this fine weekend?
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Faced with a problem in code, I get true joy from finding a deeply unorthodox solution, that (in my context) has none of the theoretical downside that would make normal people (oh if only they knew) tell me with their whole chest I'm going right to hell for doing it.
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For anyone curious about my Chiang Mai flood experience, I captured a good amount of the 3 days on camera. Here's the video documenting it. https://youtu.be/u_vGbCCsDmA
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Chiang Mai update: after 3 days of no power or water, we’re back and everything is recovering well. This makes me happy.
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Don't tell yourself you're going to "learn Spanish". Instead, you're going to learn how to tell people your name. Tomorrow it might be age. Next month it'll be "chatting for longer than 3 mins". Let the path be unclear, and focus one step ahead instead of one thousand. Lots of frequent, small wins is much more sustainable, enjoyable and motivating than a monster, multi-year goal that never seems to move closer. Learning, especially self-learning should look more like play and less like a textbook.
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Good morning! I've just uploaded last week's language newsletter for anyone who missed it. It contains four tips to make learning your TL more effective. https://lingoh.news/more-hacks-to-learn-a-language-faster
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Guys, I literally cycled for 2 hours to be able to post this /now update. https://martinrue.com/now
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I’m 24 hours into being stuck in the floods in Chiang Mai. No water or electricity, which would mean no internet right now. However, I realised the gym in this building has a cross trainer that is powered by use, and it has USB! So, 700 kcals later I’ve added 25% to my phone!
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Overnight there’s going to be another big flood in Chiang Mai. Like bloody buses! You try and escape them in one country and end up with 2 at the same time in another.
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There's nothing quite like riding your motorbike in the morning in Asia to truly wake up and appreciate life. I've arrived at my co-working space in Chiang Mai with a sudden zest for life!
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Very happy that I'm finding the time to be consistent with my language-learning writing. Yesterday I sent out issue 8 of my twice-monthly newsletter on the topic. If you don't know about it, all previous issues are here. Subscribe to get new issues every 2 weeks: https://lingoh.news
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So instead of pointing a microphone down into the street to detect gun shots, this dude made his own "shot spotter" to instead detect which music tracks are being played. The "bop spotter". I love the internet! https://walzr.com/bop-spotter
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In other news, I passed my Thai motorbike license. I've been riding the past 8 months in Asia without a license (very common), but in Chiang Mai especially, it's hard to do that as there are an insane amount of traffic police here. Glad to be doing it "officially" now :)
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Today I'm taking my Thai driving license. The class is basically just watching lots and lots of videos of people doing very dumb things.
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In the sauna I play this silly little game with myself. When someone comes in, I try to outlast them. Tonight, for the first time, a guy came in who I genuinely think plays the same game! I was in 10 mins already, so he smoked me. I'm devastated. Years of internal legend over.
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Have you heard of the "trolley problem"? 🚎 It's an ethical dilemma to figure out whether someone acts more emotionally or utilitarian. It turns out that when you add language to the mix, it gets really interesting. "People's moral judgments and decisions depend on the native-ness of the language in which a dilemma is presented, becoming more utilitarian in a foreign language." I dug into this question in this week's newsletter, which is now online for those who don't subscribe: https://lingoh.news/do-we-act-differently-in-a-foreign-language
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I took a 13 hour train from Bangkok to Chiang Mai and it was great! I made a video about it: https://youtu.be/OAiHo-eX5I8 PS: It turns out you *can* work out on a train.
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I finally watched Blade Runner 2049 last night. Loved it! What's your next favourite cyberpunk movie?
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I made a new video about where we are staying in Bangkok, for anyone interested to watch: https://youtu.be/g8Y7IB599Xw?si=86LNXKSemhTxEiyP
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✍️ I wrote something new. "I'm not kidding. But less about my mother. I want to talk about a murderer." https://martinrue.com/just-do-it
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I made a new video about Vim. It’s aimed at those who know little to nothing and want to get started with the most common text editing movements. It’s a lot of fun making videos like this! https://youtu.be/edqG79yfRBE
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Station now over 1,500 people. I think that's cool. Thanks everyone for keeping it clean and friendly here. 🙏
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Life in SE Asia 🚫 Guns 🚫 Drugs 🚫 Durian It's so funny... from hotel to subways signs, it's clear: carrying Durian is probably worse than carrying a handgun. It does smell pretty strong!
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I made a new video about life Bangkok so far: https://youtu.be/sNhWcerYp9Q
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I just learned that สวัสดี (sà-wàt-dii • hello) in Thai comes from Sanskrit स्वस्ति (svasti • prosperity, success). From "svasti" comes "swastika", which has been a symbol of divinity & spirituality in Hinduism, Buddhism, long before the far right West appropriated it.
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Tonight was the first time since I started my SE Asian adventure that I hung out with old friends from a previous city (Da Nang) in a new one (Bangkok). I love how small the world can feel in the nomad circles around these parts.