Shivan's Sunday Newsletter

By Shivan Sivakumaran

Programming, personal development, optometry, personal finance, health/wellbeing, lifestyle, finding fulfillment, and a whole lot more.

I plan to send a newsletter out every Sunday.

Previous issues

Update - I'm moving

#61 Oct 17, 2021

Revisiting Aotearoa New Zealand's Border Restrictions

#60 Oct 3, 2021

Reflecting on Low Vision Optometry

#59 Sep 26, 2021

#58

Sep 19, 2021

Ethical Artificial Intelligence
#57

Sep 12, 2021

Going deeper into Deep Learning
#56

Sep 5, 2021

A deep learning of Deep Learning
#55

Aug 15, 2021

Taking time... – Kia ora e hoa,I'm going to take some time out to sort some things out.Life changes. It's okay to stop
#54

Aug 1, 2021

What are AlGoRitHms?
#53

Jul 25, 2021

The incredible story of Thích Quảng Đức – Kia ora e hoa,I want to talk about the story of Thích Quảng Đức. I got this from the book I'm reading
#52

Jul 18, 2021

Introducing... – Kia ora e hoa,I want to introduce something special that I have been working on.It is a web applicati
#51

Jul 11, 2021

The secret behind why I write? – Kia ora e hoa,I'm frantically writing this one 10 minutes before the usual deadline of 10 AM Sunday (
#50

Jul 4, 2021

Is Giving a Cure to Hapiness or a Selfish Act? – Kia ora e hoa,Are we rich? We probably are, but we think otherwise. So is our lack of having really t
#49

Jun 27, 2021

Getting in the flow 🌊 – Kia ora e hoa,In recent weeks, I had two conversations about the same topic. One was in front of an a
#48

Jun 20, 2021

An important skill – Kia ora e hoa,What skill trumps most? Is it brains? It is muscles?Before I answer, let me share a bri
#47

Jun 13, 2021

On public speaking – ...to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulo
#46

Jun 6, 2021

Police interrogation and optometric history taking – Kia ora e hoa,WARNING: some of linked content is graphic.
#45

May 30, 2021

Discovering what you actually do – Kia ora e hoa,Five years. That's how long it's been since I graduated from the University of Auckland
#44

May 23, 2021

Priorities – Kia ora e hoa,Sorry, no detailed newsletter this week. I've just had to priorities other objectives o
#43

May 16, 2021

Know your worth – Kia ora e hoaBeing a professional, one should have control over their time and what they do. As long
#42

May 9, 2021

Please don't ask me where I'm from – "Where are you from?... No seriously, where are you from?"Kia ora e hoa,A question I often get and ho

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