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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.

Like learning how to structure a written article properly. Or resume sharpening a dulled skill, re-learning how to write properly for example, excercising that muscle and struggling to spell the word ’excercise’ correctly in the process.

This article is a latent argument of the benefits of forming a habit out of doing things that seem challenging. For its sake and to that end we could compile a comprehensive list of those arguments across history and philosophy, Bertrand Russell style, but instead I choose to present only a sample of what were the most memorable for me during my search; since it will make for a more enjoyable experience, to write and hopefully to read as well, I opt out to be the judge of that last claim.