• Setup Claude code to search for hackathons across Asia because a friend and I really wanna visit Singapore and Asia
  • found lots of cool things in America like Treehack, would be cool to give it a go
• Quote I can’t stop thinking about: discipline is reduction. Structure is cutting off choices.
  • No choice means you’re literally “locked in”
  • Obviously, cutting off superstimuli, unnecessary people & timewasters while keeping randomness would be the way to go.
• Did a buffer overflow exercise in ~6h, amazing! Cybersec is cool and creative, working under constraints.
  • First time doing shellcode, pointing back to myself, gdb, etc.
• Friend saw competition for quasi-startup, now we’re demotivated :(
• Making money is kind of like crafting a return oriented programming exploit: chaining together multiple informational / etc. asymmetries to get to money in the end.