My ex just watched this for the first time. I feel bad I didn’t urge her to see it sooner.
How much “interest” is needed in a job? What’s the difference between a job, a career and a passion?
It’s risky to offer contrarian takes in public these days
Do you know much about this place?
Competitive benchmarking: a UX design analysis
If ever there was an argument for becoming cyborgs, aren’t audio devices it?
A story of peril and self-pity
I started a podcast. I’ve been timid about sharing it.
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.
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.
An artist from Iran moved to Berlin for the same reasons we all do. But his move felt more urgent.
It’s amazing to see someone so strong and ambitious and good, putting forward an alternative narrative into a society so angry and misguided.
Will MacAskill focuses on human health, the evils of industrial farming, and existential threats to life on earth.
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.
In an age of violent righteousness, what is our moral duty regarding belief, and to those whose beliefs differ?
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.
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.
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.
A diaspora occurs when a nation faces existential threat. The Armenians have experienced trauma that rivals any other.
In celebration of human pleasure against religious dogma - a book about ideology, launched at the Crazy Horse.
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?
In death, we find rebirth. In this case, through a new god of fertility and sex. A journey to Paris’s Pere Lachaise.
Berlin is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to relaxing. The attitude exudes from the parks and into every daily situation.
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?
My map of the world
Some questions to determine if my life is how I want it, and why it might not be.