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> Whatever it is that you do, you have to really do it. If you have a choice between doing it for three hours on Sunday or doing it for 15 minutes a day for the rest of the week, do it 15 minutes a day, because what you do every day is what your brain is working on when you’re not paying attention. Your subconscious is making progress on the things you do constantly.

This very much resonates with me. The difference between doing something everyday vs cramming it into one big session (say, once a week or once a month) is huge! In fact, the bigger the challenge, the more pronounced the difference is.

For instance, I recently picked up a new hobby: reading full undergraduate or graduate level mathematics textbooks, and solving the exercise problems. A few years ago, I spent time with analytic number theory [1]. Currently, I am learning Galois theory. I have noticed that reading even as little as just one page a day yields far more insight, intuition, and problem-solving ability than trying to study 5-10 pages together during the weekend.

Even if it is just a page (or just one theorem or just one proof), the act of engaging daily keeps my mind working on the material. I can almost feel the ideas maturing in the background. Every morning, I wake up with a deeper understanding of the material, not because I studied for hours, but because I took the time to struggle with a few new concepts, no matter how briefly, the night before.

Having done this for a few years, the process feels almost mechanical. Just feed the brain with new concepts before the day ends. Even if the ideas feel challenging or difficult to fully grasp in the moment, I've learnt not to worry too much. Just feed the new ideas to the brain anyway and go to sleep. The brain digests complexity quietly, in the background, and returns the next day with fresh insight and deeper intuition. It's a remarkable machine we carry on our shoulders!

[1] https://susam.net/journey-to-prime-number-theorem.html

Website is too pretty to be useful. On mobile, I counted 8 thumb scrolls before I reached the top of the article. 8 thumb scrolls past attractive but useless junk such as images of floating letters, a long bio of the author etc.

"Jack Rusher is a multidisciplinary artist with a deep technical background."

Where's this dude's "art" no links, nothing- too many words, no substance- anyone can say they are an "artist" but you have to show some proof or you're just a tech bro creative virtue signaling.

First result on Google

> just a tech bro creative virtue signaling

He's quite well known https://jackrusher.com/

For art, go to "media" on his bluesky. Rather prolific.