I left my previous life as a designer to figure out who I really want to be and how I truly want to live. I struggle with chronic ill health and my existence. The journey to understand and reconcile all of this is expressed in the form of a regularly published public journal. more
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This site is going through an evolution as I work on integrating all my disparate selves who exist on various external platforms back into this personal site.
Writing
latest
- like a million paper cuts
- my blood as data
- my long, winding, challenging road to healing
- sometimes the best one can do is to step away
- when small is beautiful
philosophy
- on metaphysical beliefs and the determination of worthiness
- Is life worth living?
- What does it mean to be alive?
- One must imagine Sisyphus as unhappy too
- Life is absurd
- How to leave a safe existence
- dynamic living
on systems and society
health
- The connections between health, conflict avoidance and trauma
- Running as an experiment to reduce anxiety and facilitate healing
- Self-quantifying to better health
mental health
- Yayoi Kusama, mental illness and embracing weirdness
- Understanding mental health with systems thinking
- When kids end their own lives
- On being chronically depressed and suicidal
singapore
Library
book reviews
featured collections
- Life changers
- The connections between the stress response, inflammation, and exercise
- Personal websites with a wealth of information
- Books: read and recommended
Experiments
interactive experiments
- Designing a space for self directed learners
- building a personal website & learning library with wordpress: part I
ideas
- Questioning the way we display content
- Designing an interactive story to examine life’s complex narratives