I just watched this good video by CGPGrey on YouTube about his journey coming to realise the effects the internet, (social and traditional media, blogs, podcasts, etc) are having on his brain. It’s admittedly a slow and long video to… Continue Reading
I don’t mean this in the nihilistic sense but in the rational and experiential sense. While everything below may seem like a minor technicality, I think think it’s an extremely important distinction that took me years of reading and thinking… Continue Reading
Sometime ago I wrote down a note: “I realised today that we’re no longer trying to communicate anything new. As humans, the core ideas of life and living are already explored at depth in books, plays, blogs and speeches. All we are trying… Continue Reading
There are many books that look at applying the philosophy of Buddhism to everyday life, but this one by Christina Feldman is my favourite. Feldman does a great job of intertwining the basic Buddhist principles in with a mix of insightful stories,… Continue Reading
We are thrust into this life, tumbled around in our youth, only to come to the surface with time and realise that we are living without meaning. This was best put by the french 1940s philosopher Jean-Paul Satre when he… Continue Reading
Today I am celebrating a year of Ramen. It is an important milestone that marks for me a certain level of mental fortitude & mastery, but not for the reason you might think. It has nothing to do with my love of ramen itself,… Continue Reading
Letters from a Stoic, is the kind of book you can flip open to a random page, throw your finger down without aim, and still land upon a maxim that you can live your life by. Like this one: “Am I to… Continue Reading
Tolstoy perfectly captures the metaphysical anguish of the human condition down to the letter. He writes it in a way that does not dictate or demand, but takes the reader on his journey from disenfranchised youth, through an existential journey to where… Continue Reading
The problem with this book is how damn relevant it is. Seneca wrote about life, death and living over two thousand years ago, yet unfortunately, he is speaking about the exact same problems that face us today. Despite how advanced we see… Continue Reading
The train was cold yet the people colder. George knew the people very well. He spent more time with them than he did his wife; each day making the holy commute to and from work. “Doors closing, stand clear” the… Continue Reading
The road bumped a hard ray of light into Jenny’s eye. Reactively she reached forward and dimmed her rear mirror to block the Traffic from blinding her. She was not yet halfway home, but the Traffic had already consumed her.… Continue Reading
Times have changed. Robert longed for a time past, back before the arrival of the Pill, when life was different. Robert was consumed by a sense of guilt. As if it was his hand that had willingly torn the face… Continue Reading
We are all just dots you and I. Tiny dots stuck spinning away on a gigantic rock. We’re not stupid, we know what’s beyond the rock, we just can’t get off it. So we spend our entire dotlifes keeping ourselves… Continue Reading
I’m not advocating an unbalanced lifestyle, on the contrary, I think learning to balance your passions with the rest of your life is extremely important from a psychological & motivational perspective. However, in reality, there are times when you just… Continue Reading
I’m extremely fortunate to be one of the minority that have been freed from the illusion that money is going to make me happy. Let me elaborate by going back to when I was younger. During university, I joined a… Continue Reading
I think we forget. We let most of our life wash over us. We unconsciously follow our daily routines, unaware of the value being lost. Rarely do we live in the present. Instead we are overly focused on the filler;… Continue Reading