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2018

How to Identify Issues With Journalling

September 30, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

Journaling can be an extremely useful tool for exploring your inner-self and identifying issues that are lying beneath the surface. The essence of journalling is giving yourself the space to write anything that is on your mind, no matter how… Continue Reading →

Life 2018

Dealing with Suffering

September 30, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

Life is suffering. This is the foundation of Buddhist thought. No matter what happens in life, there is one thing that you can be assured of, and that’s suffering. Buddha wasn’t just a cynical old man, but went on to… Continue Reading →

Life 2018, suffering

Incognito – Eagleman

September 27, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

(Goodreads ・ Amazon) Incognito is what you get when Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahneman, and Free Will by Sam Harris, have book sex. Incognito by David Eagleman is a much more comprehensive and arguably better version of Sam Harris’… Continue Reading →

Reading List 2018, consciousness, free will

Avoiding the Internet

September 26, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

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 →

Life 2018, life

Pattern of One

September 23, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

Our brains have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to be the most advanced pattern matching systems in the known universe. This extraordinary feat is what allows us to do many of the complex interactions that make up our… Continue Reading →

Life 2018, psychology

Flow 2.0

September 21, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

Flow is one of those concepts I’d been talking about for years with friends without actually having read the original book. After going back and reading it this week, I was pretty disappointed. I feel the definition put forward by… Continue Reading →

Mental Models 2018, awareness, consciousness, flow, happiness

The Philosophy of Trash

September 17, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

It’s pretty obvious to most of us how much culture influences our lives. Many of our norms and views come from the city/country that we live in. However, what is less obvious is how something as strange as garbage collection… Continue Reading →

Humanity 2018, urban planning

Concepts: The Foundation of Consciousness

September 7, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

When you understand consciousness as a complex information system, then concepts become the foundation of each experience. A single experience is made up of many concepts that combine together to form one moment of experience. So when you look at… Continue Reading →

Mental Models 2018, consciousness

Walls of Shame

September 7, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

As you introspect more and more you realise there are parts of your mind that seem to be off-limits to exploring. It feels almost as if someone had built a wall there preventing you from going further. I’ve found that… Continue Reading →

Life, Mental Models 2018, shame

Demian – Hesse

August 26, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

Like all of Herman Hesse’s novels, after finishing it I sigh with despair and think to myself: “There is nothing left for me to contribute to literature. My career is done before it had a chance to begin.” Hesse is… Continue Reading →

Reading List 2018

Heart of Darkness – Conrad

August 26, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

There is only one quote you need to know from this Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: “The horror! The horror!” That is not to say that there is no value in this book, I actually think the opposite. But that one… Continue Reading →

Reading List 2018

Visiting Japan: An Itinerary

August 13, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

I wrote this up for a friend who wanted some ideas for travelling to Japan. In reality, this is a pretty standard itinerary for anyone looking to make their first trip to Japan. Enjoy 🙏 Prefaces The thing that I… Continue Reading →

Travel 2018, japan, travel

Flipping the Employment Table

August 13, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

Everyone knows the biggest problem today is unemployment. Them greedy capitalists and the cheating Chinese are stealing all our good jobs, leaving us unemployed. Unemployment isn’t even the whole “problem”, when you factor in underemployment (people who want more work… Continue Reading →

Humanity 2018, capitalism

I Am Wrong

August 13, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

“The world is being ripped apart by greed and inequality.” “Capitalism left unchecked will continue to destroy the planet.” “Capitalism makes the rich richer and the poor poorer.” These are the kind of statements that I would have typed up… Continue Reading →

Life 2018, capitalism, psychology

Ideological Thinking

August 13, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

The biggest problem with today’s world isn’t Trump, or conservative, or the Big Energy companies, it’s ideological thinking. “If you want to make the world a better place Take a look at yourself, and then make a change.” – Michael Jackson… Continue Reading →

Humanity 2018, capitalism, favourite

The Profit Motive

August 13, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

If capitalism has proven anything, it is the strength of the profit motive as an incentive. Having a sound understanding of the profit motive is important for all of us to ensure we don’t end up blaming the wrong people… Continue Reading →

Humanity, Mental Models 2018, capitalism, favourite

The Problems of Capitalism

August 12, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

I’ve spent a lot of time learning about capitalism in hopes of finding out how we can get to Better Capitalism. I’ll be honest, there are no silver bullets, no clear cut answers, but the thing that I’ve realised is… Continue Reading →

Humanity 2018, capitalism

Principles – Dalio

August 12, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

(Goodreads ・ Amazon) I respect Ray Dalio’s humility and honesty. You get the sense that he is an open, “enlightened” man who has seen the greater pattern in the world and lifted himself a little further away from the bopping… Continue Reading →

Reading List 2018

This Changes Everything – Klein

August 8, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

(Goodreads・Amazon) My personal prediction Humans are going to go through a rather lengthy and difficult learning experience that will likely last 60-200 years. We won’t change our behaviour in time to reach the 2C warming target. Even when we hit… Continue Reading →

Reading List 2018, capitalism

Life Doesn’t Really Matter

August 5, 2018sebastiankade 1 Comment

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 →

Life 2018, favourite, life, purpose

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