Tag: philosophy
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The right problem to solve
Finding the right problem to solve — is it that appears in front of us or behind us, invisible to the naked eye? We strive to make a circulation visible from the darkness of webs. In assessing what is known and unknown, including our blind spots, we cram into the intensification of discovery. Never underestimate…
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Unique in your perversity
The individual may be unique in their perversity, always bucking trends and wanting to know more than what’s at face value. The outlier refuses to live on the templates of an algorithm and let groupthink colonize parts of their mind. She prefers the rebellious hunch over the aggregation of data to maintain the essence of…
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The shared tempo of minds
If the blog is dead, then writing is dead. And if writing is dead, thinking is dead. If thinking is dead, then ideas are dead. If ideas are dead, then there’s no experimentation nor communication. Memes fail to sprout when words die. Yet, we are creators, unmoored from the prison of biology. The pull to share is…
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Too unique to be a freak
A brain fogged away by alcohol, conventionality, and dopamine dependence. The head no longer wields attention to its unique advantage due to being manipulated at scale. Are we not entertained into generic beasts? A clean glass of water wipes away the tears of indulgence. A proper sleep guts the head of neuronal waste. Any subsequent…
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What spreads, rarely sticks
All problems and their subsequent solutions are social. The good thing about solutions is that they’re typically social-proof and benefit from the network effect: What works for one person multiplies as commonality gets shared with the next, like a vaccine. The simplest form of information exchange is language. Words are memes. And memes can be…
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Everything optimized
We try to optimize time like we try to manipulate the weather—craving proficiency, we come prepared. But we are the tools of our tools. In this pre-metaverse world, humans can only control so much. The clock, indeed a fabrication of man, keeps on ticking. Meanwhile, the weather remains fickle. Nature confounds the rules of predictability;…
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A vocation of old and new
Everyone harbors an undeniable vocation that starts when we’re kids. Playing in the NBA, winning a Grammy or an Oscar — most aspirations are pipe dreams. But the characteristics we build in pursuing those far-fetched fantasies such as confidence, persistence, result from facing all the anxieties and fears that arise from such honest confrontation. When…
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Busy living with doubt
The painful past, the anxious future, the joyful present — to be alive in any mood requires that we hop over the indifference threshold. The more we feel negative emotions, the more we care. The caring fever remains scarce even when others don’t. The fool ignores their own peril and remains stuck in a state…
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Predictably unpredictable
All outcomes are predictably unpredictable. There is no such thing as chance, with most things in life predetermined at the outset of infancy. Free will, the so-called author of our choices, presents constraints. What happens when the amygdala, the brain’s seat of emotions, chooses for us? Instinct overrides self-control. We manufacture great urges in a…
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Powering off
Dreaming exudes clarity. Only when our mind is in a state of utter relaxation do the disparate parts coalesce. Yet, the era of self-thought and free will is nearing the end. Unable to sleep, we slump into the distraction of rectangular glows before drowning in information overload. The algorithms ensure we never think for ourselves. …
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Doing it our own way
To do it our own way, for you, regardless of external interpretation and expectation. Individuality is all we have. Character is destiny. Sure, it’s in our DNA as social human beings to want to receive feedback on our creative outpourings. But making is therapeutic in itself. Output is the manifestation of input. What we cultivate…
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Reborn ideas
Life arises out of nonlife, developing as a consequence of the random workings of nature. Similarly, creativity arises out of noncreativity. Concepts are non-existent without chance execution. All ideas are dead ideas until further movement. Yet, it is procrastination that brings some of our best work to the forefront. Clarity emerges during idle times — thoughts coalesce…