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I write one of these every year. I read last year’s and was slightly amused how serious I sounded. But this is typical of me, I oscillate between thinking I take myself…
the center cannot hold
I finished reading “The center cannot hold” in three consecutive settings. It is an memoir written by a conventionally successful professor on her journey struggling with schizophrenia. I guess it says a…
if I die
Nobody knows (with very rare exceptions) when our time on this earth will come to an end. Most of us are not very conscious of this. I think about death a lot…
building a personal website & learning library with wordpress: part I
philosophy, motivation, inspiration, and early design decisions
don’t wait too long
Originally I scheduled myself today to write a post on the decisions I’d made while building this website, but an alumni of one of places I worked at passed away in a…
ruminating thoughts on inequality, mental illness and what it means to be human
Some days I browse the local subreddit, and it is saddening how lost, anxious and depressed youths get when they struggle with their grades. The stories told by Teo You Yenn in…
social media & my existential loneliness
on my previous dependence on social media, what I sought from it, and why I eventually let it go
Integrating my selves
on integrating the different parts of myself, both online and offline.
dynamic living
I love reading books on zen, but it is not easy to find good ones in my opinion. Most are repetitive, and they either try too hard or they over-simplify everything. Good…
moving towards silence
When I was younger, I felt alienated by the society I grew up in. Everyone pursued conventional paths, and I was/am gay, a drop-out, and a freelancer. Any one of those three…