It has been nine days since I’ve committed to this challenge. Many articles state that it takes 30 days to build a habit. I missed posting on day eight to file taxes. Therefore days eight and nine will be my personal reflections on what I felt when building this writing habit. Prompts work but I have trouble articulating what I want to say At the beginning of this challenge, I committed to using writing prompts.…
Oh yeah, it’s time to get serious about this anti-work journey by resuming all the creative projects I’ve been putting on hold. I’ve chosen content creation to be my escape vector from the indignities of racialized existence. While my coercion is set to end within two months, I’m putting my stolen time back to creative pursuits. Dealing with my mental health will also add to this difficulty. I’ve already identified writing and drawing as…
If I’m going to get my interests monetized, I’ll have to learn to make my site pretty, great. I’ve had a personal blog for a couple of years now. I started the blog while slaving away at kitchens and not having an outlet to vent my thoughts. After several years of owning my site, I’ve decided to sit down and try to make it easier to navigate. I purchased a domain, installed WordPress, bought a…
Woke up and did another yoga routine. Apparently I lack a lot of balance. I started to record myself drawing another drawabox homework assignment. My mental state was still negative after reading up on current events, existential dread and being aware of my elevated, but still racialized position in society. Probably not a good idea to remind myself the world is burning while from a position of relative yet constrainted safety. Verbalizing and scribing my…
Continuing to write my thoughts in isolation. Woke up a bit before the alarm today. Still I sat around examining my thoughts for day. I managed to do a yoga routine and decided I’d do my art on this evening or the weekend.(This did not come to pass). I had received words of encouragement from a fellow writer on my mental stateon my medium post. What they’re saying makes sense and I have to remember…
I’m trying to take a new approach with blogging today. Since I can not keep a regular blog posting about tech, I’ve decided to use writing prompts instead. The reason for doing this is to try and write a post a day. In participating in these daily writing exercises, I hope to improve my written communication skills. To generate topics to write about, I am using the article “52 Writing Prompts to Inspire Your Next…
It’s been two months since my last bootcamp. Let the coding procastination begin! Sadly, I am no closer to the goal I set forth to complete by August 1st, 2019. From this previous post, I made my intention clear that I would do everything it took to finally land a coveted tech job. Yet now I find myself in a government funded skilled trades program. While I’m grateful for the opportunity and tactile experiences, I…
Welcome all to afropolymath.com. I’m Jonathan Thomas and today I’m going to be writing about something near and dear to my heart. Money or my perpetual lack of it to date….hooray! The inspiration for this post came about from reading Dan Lok’s “FU Money”. Which after reading, definitely addresses my issue with paid work. People follow the narrative of go to school, get a job, procreate, take two weeks annual vacation, retire, live and die.…
Hello and welcome to afropoylmath.com. My name is Jonathan Thomas, and I hope to be considered a polymath one day. A polymath is described as having knowledge or mastery in several subjects(heavily paraphrased from Wikipedia). I’m writing this blog to catalog my attempts at learning subjects that interest me and maybe turn this into a career of some sort. I’m not going to lie; things are always hit and miss when I attempt to stick…