サイトー Blog #2 #ZoneOneWinter
1/30/26 #Friday
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[[ChatGPT as a Tool]]
[[Excitement in Understanding the Body]]
[[Excitement in Possibilities]]
Hello Raihan Fabricates Audience,
This will be my second monthly blog on this site. This monthly blog represents how AI will influence my designs choices as I continue my journey on this online platform, trying to showcase what I have learned in life, along with drawings that help illustrate my process. Raihan Fabricates, although I have a background in steel and copper products, my intention for fabrication is more nuanced. Because, fabrication is a very liberal term, and thus, I just love the concept of building, and the process of creating structures. I started with Architecture, but I’m not necessarily just interested in making designs, if the implementation process isn’t there, or I’m not sure how the implementation process works.
For me, AI, tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, they are helping me become more conscious about how I perform in a public stage. For me, fabrication means being able to have the ability manipulate mental ideas, and actually have it become reality. Not just buildings, any kind of structure, that we can imagine, that needs a fabrication process. Architecture is a platform for me, so I can perform, with the intention to build, and with the intention to be able to explain what I actually do.
One really cool think about Architecture school was, the presentation process, after the end of each project. We always had big critiques, during the midterm, and during the final, and truthfully, I think that was the moment that I learned the most. Although, during architecture school, I did not know how my body worked at all. I didn’t know how harmful all nighters could be, nor did I know if we are not careful, our minds can overwhelm us, and really take us to the ground. I learned the hard way, the concept of actually keeping ourselves intact, even in the most intense of emotions.
Thus, when we are super absorbed in a process, we get so into it, it’s overwhelmingly difficult for others to understand this process, especially if they have not themselves entered this intense phase themselves. So for me, although architecture school was super difficult, I learned a whole lot, that I can never forget. Thus, even though it was super difficult, I genuinely have amazing amounts of respect, because it has made me the person that I am today. Thus, I intend to pursue fabrication, but also, at some point in the future, become an architect who can also direct, not just knowing the design process, but also how the structures themselves get made.
I have reaped the benefits of my intense desire. I left Greaves Corporation, back in November, with the intention of pursuing Architecture. Furthermore, I have confirmed that I got into the University of Hartford, and Temple University. For me, this fight was so I can escape the doubt that I always had, ‘was I actually good enough?,’ which was the question that always rose in my head. At some moments, I thought I had it, and at some moments, I lost all faith. But nowadays, because I have systems, and I genuinely believe that we have fluctuation of will power, and [[Cal Newport]] really has helped me understand some of this. For me, recently, his books [[Slow Productivity]], and [[Deep Work]], really confirmed what I have also recently figured out myself. We really do have limited will power in a typical day, in regards to Deep Work.
This willpower is not same for everyone, some people can be night owls, or morning persons, larks, but overall, we have a limited amount of willpower, and once we really use our mind, and unless we rest, we won’t have the same capacity to function, at the same rate, all day long. We can focus, but that focus uses energy, and when that energy is gone, we have to rest, and we have to go into deep sleep, and we have to have the glymphatic helping us, get rid of the waste that we accumulate, in the terms of dead cells, when we use a lot of energy. And that only happens, when we get good sleep, and deep sleep, the slow wave sleep in our sleeping journey, it’s the part that really helps us become super clear again.
Thus, this journey, it is incredible, and everybody has this strength, and this is how neuroplasticity also helps, because we gain more insights, when we are able to really understand how our body works. Thus, for me, studying architecture again, it’s just a medium, so I can eventually build, in a systematic way, the architecture that I envision, but I want to be to able direct it as well. Thus, I don’t need to say that I’m not good enough, because that is redundant, and we are good enough, if we let our body rest, and we make it work again.
Our body has strength, but we have to keep using it, and we have to keep using it appropriately, with proper rest afterwards. The body has insane amount of power, and we can burn so many calories, and we can do so many things, but we have to also believe, and we have to move, because energy comes when we actually use the energy appropriately. Thus, if we use energy, but it’s stressful energy, then we will get burned out faster, but if it’s a passion energy, and we are moving, and we are doing a lot of cool things, that we really desire, our energy actually comes back at full force, and the things that we are able to do, it’s out of our realm of comprehension, but in a good way.
I genuinely love that about human beings. We have so much potential, but that potential comes when we are not stressed, and we are able to grow, and we are able to live a life that we love, with autonomy and freedom. That is genuinely one of the coolest things that the human body is capable of doing. Thus, I am genuinely super grateful, and I am extremely happy that I will be able to go back to architecture school again. Though, I am in no rush, and I will finish grad school at my own pace, and I’m ok with that taking as long as needed. I want to understand the process, to its full capacity, and that’s what keeps me going. Plus, with all this, I want to be there for my family as well, and not be rushing, but working with deep focus, and deep rest, so I can do it all over gain, with as much enthusiasm as the work requires.