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Movies Are Magic: Under the Skin

My ex just watched this for the first time. I feel bad I didn’t urge her to see it sooner.

Should I Be a UX Designer?

How much “interest” is needed in a job? What’s the difference between a job, a career and a passion?

Soul

Held Back by Opaque Forces

Soul

Some questions to determine if my life is how I want it, and why it might not be.

Soul

Culture Studies

Should I Share This on Facebook?

Culture Studies

It’s risky to offer contrarian takes in public these days

Culture Studies

Maps, Culture Studies

Caribbean, Divided Whole

Maps, Culture Studies

Do you know much about this place?

Maps, Culture Studies

User Experience

Flight Search UI

User Experience

Competitive benchmarking: a UX design analysis

User Experience

Solving Audio

User Experience

If ever there was an argument for becoming cyborgs, aren’t audio devices it?

User Experience

Cursed online purchase

User Experience

A story of peril and self-pity

User Experience

Lifestyle

Doing a Podcast

Lifestyle

I started a podcast. I’ve been timid about sharing it.

Lifestyle

To the Skies

Lifestyle

A Berlin exhibition in honor of #minimalism and #skyporn

Lifestyle

Journal sur ma procrastination

Things ping around in my mind, all these tasks to accomplish, all the unfinished business, but none of them compel me to action. Instead I fritter my focus on inanities.

Culture Studies

Berlinale 69

Culture Studies

What films to watch in 2019

Culture Studies

Zeitgeist, Soul

Do I Remember Being an Other?

Zeitgeist, Soul

On Identity, Victimhood and Epigenetics

Zeitgeist, Soul

Soul

Wish here were you

Soul

My brain is a cloud. I stare at myself out the window. I watch the thoughts pass, watch the sky paint its images. These are my visions. I see things.

Soul

Culture Studies

Fleeing oppression

Culture Studies

An artist from Iran moved to Berlin for the same reasons we all do. But his move felt more urgent.

Culture Studies

Reflecting on Better Times

Culture Studies

It’s amazing to see someone so strong and ambitious and good, putting forward an alternative narrative into a society so angry and misguided.

Culture Studies

Addressing Moral Problems

Will MacAskill focuses on human health, the evils of industrial farming, and existential threats to life on earth.

Lifestyle

Big Data

Lifestyle

Big data vs privacy, convenience vs community

Lifestyle

Maps

Mapping the World

Maps

I collect maps. I will display them in this magazine as an archive for a greater project. I'm not sure if the project is for the art world or the academic. But it's something I want to visually represent. I will start it here.

Maps

Zeitgeist

What If You're Wrong?

Zeitgeist

In an age of violent righteousness, what is our moral duty regarding belief, and to those whose beliefs differ?

Zeitgeist

Considering Immigration

Zeitgeist

Having listened to some conservatives on the topic of immigration, I can see their points, even if I don’t fully agree with their final analysis. Well, it’s complicated.

Zeitgeist

It Never Ends

How do you cope with all the daily minutia in life?

Maps

Journal of Where

Maps

I’m on a mission to redefine the world. I am interested in making sense of things, of organizing everything in my mind. Everything in its right place, everywhere you go.

Maps

Culture Studies

The World Cup

Culture Studies

A political concept lies at the heart of the EU that I think helps explain the continent’s success, and it might sound controversial: it’s the fundamental idea of the nation-state. It can actually be a fun, cooperative thing.

Culture Studies

Geography

Lost Heritage

Geography

A diaspora occurs when a nation faces existential threat. The Armenians have experienced trauma that rivals any other.

Geography

Culture Studies

Dangerous Illusions

Culture Studies

In celebration of human pleasure against religious dogma - a book about ideology, launched at the Crazy Horse.

Culture Studies

Internet like Water

Shouldn’t wi-fi be everywhere by now? Shouldn’t the connection be reliable? Am I expecting too much to think this should be considered a basic public utility?

Lifestyle

Pilgrimage

Lifestyle

In death, we find rebirth. In this case, through a new god of fertility and sex. A journey to Paris’s Pere Lachaise.

Lifestyle

Capital of Leisure

Lifestyle

Berlin is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to relaxing. The attitude exudes from the parks and into every daily situation.

Lifestyle

Zeitgeist

Politicizing the Psychological

Zeitgeist

It’s easy to agree to disagree on topics like food and film, but when it comes to how society functions, wouldn’t it be nice to come to some sort of mutual understanding?

Zeitgeist