It actually felt good to just, write, in reference to the previous post. I was worried and had been stress-dreaming — you know those kind of dreams you get when you are stressed, which usually involves sitting for secondary school exams for subjects you no longer had any proficiency of in waking life (Additional Maths! […]
Category: Psychology and Philosophy
Questions to ask
I have written 2,567 words for my final chapter today, of which I expect to be concluded by next Tuesday. For the thesis, I have written close to 52,000 words. I thought about the time a few months ago when I was lamenting about how I was going to write 60,000 words for the thesis. […]
On disinformation
Three categories of information disorder. Credit: Scientific American I was just thinking the other day as I delve more and more on the perils of technology and media in today’s challenging political and social scape, whatever that could be explained as, is that we should be focusing on the deeper systemic causes, rather than putting […]
NOSMO
I made a decision to log out of my Instagram account, uninstall the app, and go on indefinite hiatus today. There are two reasons mainly. One, is that I decide to place myself within some personal crunchtime towards submitting my thesis in all its entirety. I am happy that this is going well so far, […]
The point of writing
I guess I have come across this before but I was recently made aware (or reminded) of from Stranger Things 3 of what is called the Baader-Meinhof effect, or ‘frequency illusion’— the effect that happens when you start seeing the same things in succession after being mentioned to you, or encountered upon it the first […]
No more self-erasing
I have been having body aches for the longest time, and judging from how long I often sit working in front of the computer, I guess it has to do with some muscle tension in my shoulder and arms area. I haven’t gone for a massage for the longest time as well so I called […]
Don’t dismiss humble acquaintance
I finished Normal People by Sally Rooney today. It’s still not for me, for the very same reason I wrote yesterday. And that’s OK, not all books work for everyone! Moving on. A good friend visited me in my city the other day and we had a lot to catch up about (and stuff our […]
The dark forest of the Internet
Parkinson’s law — the idea that work expands to fill the time available for its completion — means that if you give yourself two weeks to complete a task, then the work will find a way to complete itself within two weeks, even if taking some extra metrics out of the calculation (emotional labour, stress, […]
On The Good Place
I just sat the other day thinking, “Man, I miss The Good Place.” On Malaysia’s Netflix, the series is only available up until two seasons — and suffice to say, I have watched them all. During my trip to Melbourne, I got too excited upon finding out that Season 3 was already up on Netflix […]
Against hyperthymesia
I just finished reading a book called Filling the Void: Emotion, Capitalism & Social Media written by Londoner Marcus Gilroy-Ware, which is yet another critique (I am saying this because this seems to be the pattern of my reading materials for the past two years, given my research concentration) of social media and the society […]
