The Mind Palace

Test Post

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 22:08:33 +0100

Test Post. Please put this into the Mind Palace Blog. :)

About

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Hi! My name is Kam. I am a Cyber-Physical Systems MSc student at University of Nottingham and in this blog I explore ideas and thoughts. Expect philosophy, creative writing, and anything that does not fit my other blogs.

You can find my other blogs and my portfolio at here

Why Did Nobody Tell Me This Before?

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 08:30:00 +0000

This post is about the book: Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?.

This is my second try at writing the blog post about this book. Writing about this topic has proven more difficult than I originally thought. I thought I would lay out some tips and ideas that the book present, nicely give a few examples, and tell you to go read the book yourself. But it turns out that after finishing it, I have been pretty lost. Lost with all of the ideas presented, and everything that is discussed. This book is so saturated with content and filled with information that it is quite hard to decompose and analyse some of the ideas that this book presents. Regardless here I am going to try to do just that, and how good of a job will I do? I don’t know.

Review: The City & The City (Spoiler-Free)

Tue, 06 Aug 2024 08:30:00 +0000

I haven’t read a fiction book in a long while. My days have been pretty busy lately, with me sometimes working from 7am to 9pm; I did not have the time to sit down and escape into an imaginary world, even though I badly wanted to. And when I picked up The City & The City, I expected it to hit every detective cliché that this genre had to offer. I would never normally pick up a detective novel, James Patterson’s Cross series have put me off detective stories in my teens.

My Story of Writing

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 08:30:00 +0000

Like with mathematics, my relationship with writing, both fiction and non-fiction, has always been one-way, I always wanted to be able to write. I wouldn’t want to become a full-time writer, but being able to put together a decent story that is engaging to others appeals to me.

I always struggled to do that. Even after lots of practice, my fiction stories would come out crumbled and mediocre at best. Analysing your writing is one of the most bizarre experiences that I have encountered. When debugging code you know that you have to find an issue, something that can go wrong. But in writing, there is no wrong. It’s either a decently written story, or it’s a complete disaster that needs to be rewritten. I hope that this commitment to weekly blog posts will improve my writing somewhat.