# aasthavkapoor > #4amThoughts Newsletter every Friday: thoughts on personal finance, sustainability, self-growth, & food. Public Ghost content for AI and LLM tooling. Use `/llms-full.txt` for consolidated page and post context. Append `.md` to any post or page URL to get the content in Markdown (for example, `/example-post.md`). ## Pages - [Links](https://www.aasthavkapoor.com/links.md) - @aasthavkapoor Finance · Sustainability · Food · Growth Main socials YouTube Instagram TikTok Discord 💌 Email: aasthavkapoor@gmail.com Support me Stripe Cash App Shop Products 🌱 ## Posts - [Public Advocacy](https://www.aasthavkapoor.com/public-advocacy.md) - Social Media Post Questions What type of social media post did you produce? Why? I made an Instagram reel because I think its format can be used on other platforms, if you ever want to replicate it in the future. For example, for this blog post, I published it on YouTube shorts so I could link it o… - [Banff Journal](https://www.aasthavkapoor.com/banff-journal.md) - GEOG 4350 - Parks & Protected Areas Planning & Management Practical portion of this field course toom place in Banff from May 25 to June 6. We researched overcrowding in Lake Minnewanka but observed it all over Banff. May 25 - Sunday Having arrived to the campground we enjoyed our first fire togeth… - [Assignment 3 - Homelands & Regional Landscapes](https://www.aasthavkapoor.com/assignment-3-homelands-regional-landscapes.md) - Part A: Write about your personal meaning and sense of homeland. Homeland to me is my memories of growing up in India. The memories of seasons, plants, animals, festivals, colours, noise, food, family, routine, clothes, and at home havan’s making the air smell of fire and camphor. I am reminded of… - [Assignment 2 - Cultural Landscape](https://www.aasthavkapoor.com/assignment-2-cultural-landscape.md) - Part A: Explain what landscapes teach us about our human-nature relationships. For example, you may consider the following questions: How do people bring the elements of nature into their built environment and why? What elements of nature do they include in the landscape and why? What elements do t… - [Assignment 1 - Human Nature Relationship](https://www.aasthavkapoor.com/assignment-1.md) - Part A: Reflect on your human-nature relationship. You may want (may not, which depends on your approach to this essay) consider the following questions: What are your personal ideas and beliefs about nature? How are your personal beliefs and ideas shaped by your cultural worldviews? How do these p… - [Public Space Essay: The Forks](https://www.aasthavkapoor.com/public-space-essay-the-forks.md) - Bibliography is in the form of clickable links in-text, at the end of a paragraph or within a sentence [indicated by being underlined & purple]. Information is presented through images (sourced from Google Images), writing, and videos. History: productions & uses The Forks is located exactly where… - [Critical Analysis of a Film: Om Shanti Om](https://www.aasthavkapoor.com/critical-analysis-of-a-film-om-shanti-om.md) - Summary The film is a masterpiece that takes place mostly on movie sets because the main characters Om (a small-time actor) and Shanti (a famous actress) work in the movie industry, many settings and social disparities are used to invoke feelings within the viewers. The story follows the incomplete… - [Response Action](https://www.aasthavkapoor.com/response-action.md) - The source of my immense growth is my persistence to challenge my thought processes and the actions I take because of these thoughts. I feel like it all started after I read The New Earth (I will never read another non-fiction because of this book), it changed my way of thinking, made me realize I… - [“Newborns”](https://www.aasthavkapoor.com/newborns.md) - New ideas/plans are like newborn babies, they need to be protected for them to grow and show their colors. To be prodded and adjusted. Then finally the newborn will be shared with trusted people to learn from these people and further evolve with new information. Very important it is a person that g… - [5 Beginner Rollerblading Tips](https://www.aasthavkapoor.com/beginner-rollerblading-tips.md) - 1. Stretch * Stretch before you begin & and whenever you start feeling tense 2. Don't look down * If you look down you will go down! (This is the first piece of advice I got from an experienced skater of 40+ years) Honestly really helped me out when I got right on the skating ring and my speed was… - [To improve at conversations:](https://www.aasthavkapoor.com/to-improve-at-conversations.md) - What I do currently: * I reply with "that's cool/fun/awesome/etc." when someone shares something with me. It is dismissive and ends that conversation. * I have noticed I use a lot of "I" statementafter somebody shares so that I can talk about my past experiences/what the persons story reminds me of… - [Limiting Beliefs](https://www.aasthavkapoor.com/limiting-beliefs.md) - The longest self-judgment I have had on myself: I am shy * I defended it, and made excuses for it might still be, but noticing myself do it is the first step to taking action to bring change to my behavior My reasons/excuses: derived from my thought of being shy * I am shy, so that is why I can not… - [Ghost: How to make private notes in your posts (at the end or anywhere) for future edits.](https://www.aasthavkapoor.com/ghost-how-to-make-private-notes-in-your-posts-at-the-end-or-anywhere-for-future-edits.md) - Using code block: you can place notes anywhere in your post and when you publish the post your readers won't see these personal editorial notes. - [A Day with Many Hues](https://www.aasthavkapoor.com/a-day-with-many-hues.md) - The cold of concrete bites into the soles of my feet as I run around the drawing-room, being chased by my mum, who urges me to wear more than underwear on a crisp day with skies torn from hues of grey. I hear my mum’s voice wander away to the kitchen, and my giggles from the pursuit subside; the su… - [Our Brief Meeting](https://www.aasthavkapoor.com/our-brief-meeting.md) - Today is a blissful day filled with the greens and blues of mid-summer. I latch onto the safety of my sibling’s hand, shying away from the people gathering around the young huskies. We pass through the entrance of the house into their backyard, where the owner shares the litter’s genealogy with str… ## Optional - [RSS Feed](https://www.aasthavkapoor.com/rss/) - [Sitemap](https://www.aasthavkapoor.com/sitemap.xml) - [Full content of pages and posts](https://www.aasthavkapoor.com/llms-full.txt)