I’m onto my draft thesis corrections now, and if there are sentiments that ring true at this point of time, it comes from Zadie Smith from her book of essays, Changing My Mind, where she talks about receiving proofs: Proofs are so cruel! Breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring […]
Category: Psychology and Philosophy
On novelty, and burnout should make us angry
A few months ago a friend came to visit and we talked about projects we could venture into, if we had all the right resources: financial, skills, time, etc. (of which I think skills would be no problem, the other two, on the other hand, would pose some slight problems). She mentioned about an entrepreneur […]
What, at this moment, are you meant to know?
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! […]
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, […]
