Health & Habits

Physical Health

• Sciences behind exercising
• Brain Health
  • brain fog & fatigue
  • attention & focus
• exercise goal setting

Mental Health

• understand the state of the stigma
• reach out for TIMB podcast

Artifacts

• Writing: turn existing writing in ‣ into a coherent piece
• Writing: Expanding Your Energy Pie - Practical Guide on Sleep, Diet, and Exercise

Psychology

Mathematical Psychology

focusing on decision modeling

Reading

• The Oxford Handbook of Computational and Mathematical Psychology
  • Part I.3: Modeling Simple Decisions and Applications Using a Diffusion Model
  • Part III.10: Models of Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty
  • (optional) Part I.5: Computational Reinforcement Learning

Artifacts

• Writing: primer for Mathematical Psychology around Decision Making
• Journal / Artistic Creation: Analysis & modeling of my own decision making
  • Idea: MDP for my emotional states

Emotion

Reading

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Emotion
• The Passions by Robert C. Solomon
• (optional) How Emotions are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett
• Emotion

Artifacts

• Write to explore these questions
  • Relationship between emotions & meaning
  • Relationship between logic & emotions
  • Can we program our emotions & how to use emotions to our advantage?

(Optional) Empathy

• The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison (revisit)
• Against Empathy by Paul Bloom
• (optional) Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle

Theatre

Play Reading

Reading

• Intro to Playwriting Slides
• A Playwright’s Guidebook
• Flash Play
• Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith
  • One actor play, created with the inspiration of a series of interviews
• The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
  • One woman show
• (optional) Cost of Living by Martyna Majok
  • A hard-hitting play on people who needs people
• (optional) I am My Own Wife by Doug Wright
• (optional) Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Backett

Artifacts

• Writing: a 10-minute play or a Flash Play
• Tech & Artistic Creation:
  • a play that generate different plots based on audience requests using GPT-3 https://www.shibuya.xyz/about
  • a play that destroys itself at the end of the plot so that no two plots are ever the same

Theatre Development