Posts For Tag life

2023

I Think I Am Starting to Fear Death

A little short story musings about middle age mentalities

2022

Tom and Jerry Get Existential

Some fun absurdity co-written with AI

2021

My Tools and Practices for a Healthier and More Productive Life

Some things I use and do to make me healthier and more productive.

How the Year of COVID Broke Me, and How I Started Getting Better

Trying to explain my past year in mental health

2020

My Mental Health Struggles in 2020 (so far)

Or, if you are not doing great I hope it sort of helps to know I've been in rough spots too.

COVID-19, Inequality, and Donating What You Can Now

Or, why I donated more than $7000 in recent weeks

Why and How to Get the Most Out of Twitter

Just some reflections on why the site is not a total waste of time, and how to get the most out of it

Things Everyone Should Know About Depression

Facts about depression everyone should be aware of, and some recommendations

Endings

A little poem about endings

Lessons Learned the Hard Way in Grad School (so far)

Things learned the hard way, conveyed here so hopefully you can learn them the easy way

2018

The Sickness That Is Depression

An attempt to convey what it was like to have clinical depression and de-stigmatize the topic

Habits and Tools, Old and New

The things I do and use, and hope to start doing and using

2017

Some Thoughts on Meditation

A short reflection about my experience with meditation

Moving On, Looking Back

A short post reflecting on becoming a full time grad student at Stanford

2016

What Brief Hacker News Fame Looks Like

Some graphs and stats about a post that made it to the Hacker News front page

2015

Exceptional People

An essay-poem

Hello to andreykurenkov.com!

Why and how this website was created

On Work

Reflections on having worked myself to the brink of burning out

Some More Thoughts on Being

More lofty principles I hope to live by

Some Thoughts on Being

Some principles I hope to abide by

2014

On The Walking Dead and Artistic Coherence

The second season was so dissapointing compared to the first. What changed?

Reflections on Magie Du Paysage Russe

How it was to connect to my Russian roots, while in Switzerland

Ethical Problems On My Daily Commute

When no one checks if you have a ticker, ought you still buy one?