Tech

I bought a new NVMe drive and decided this was as good a time as any to actually understand what I was doing instead of just copying commands from Stack Overflow until something worked.

Here’s what I learned about block devices, partition tables, and why everyone still pretends sectors are 512 bytes when they haven’t been for years.

Finding the Drive

First step: figure out where the hell the new drive actually is.

The sun rises. You pour coffee. You get your list of things to-do ready and by evening, both are drained again. Tomorrow, the pattern repeats. This isn’t monotony, it’s rhythm, and rhythm is how nature stays alive.

The Nested Rhythms of Being

We live inside cycles like Russian dolls. Each day pulses with its own circadian heartbeat: wake, work, rest, repeat. Zoom out and you find the weekly sprint—five days grinding toward Friday’s brief reprieve. Zoom out further: biweekly paychecks structure our spending, monthly bills anchor our planning, annual birthdays and holidays mark the passage of seasons.