Anything worth doing,
is worth doing slowly

Bijan Rahnamai

I write poetry, build software, and teach yoga. Currently creating from Bali, Indonesia. Founder of JADI.

Poetry

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September 21, 2026

Three Lies About Money I Didn't Know I Believed

Three takeaways from The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist, and the three toxic myths of scarcity.

April 02, 2026

How to memorize any phone number

Memory tools

February 02, 2026

Remembering a Language I Already Know

The first language I heard as a child was the language of my parents, Persian Azeri. In the 2025 I decided to make learning languages and helping oth...

October 05, 2025

Polyglot Memoir

Memoir of the late scholar and polyglot Benedict Anderson Benedict Anderson "A Life Beyond Boundaries" is the first memoir I've read about a schol...

September 28, 2025

Becoming Fluent

Wonderful book on how adults learn languages The Language Myth There is a language myth, the big one, that adults cannot learn languages as easily...

September 21, 2025

Learning Languages

Books I bought in Denpasar airport while traveling to Malaysia Learning Languages I have always had a desire to learn languages, especially as I h...