#modernity

Thoughts on tech and social issues

Empty vessels make the most noise. Nature abhors a vacuum. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. What goes up must come down. Nothing is new under the sun. This time is different. One man's meat

Some things are worth doing poorly because they aren't meant to be done perfectly, even when we do them to the best of our ability. Think about a handwritten birthday card versus professionally designed

Is silence some kind of bug we have to immediately patch? There's sometimes this awkward silence that suddenly lands on the atmosphere mid-sentence or close to it that makes all parties be on the edge

Not that I've noticed one recently, but I've always wondered what's the thought process behind creators quitting their platforms, more specifically YouTube creators hanging up the mic and somehow disappearing

I've heard a lot of things and the ones I remember from the lot are more trivial than non-trivial. That said, I don't know if there's a defined criteria on why certain pieces of inputs are remembered while

The Great Parenthesis For 200,000 years, we were hunters, dreamers, and wanderers. For 200 years, we were employees. The Industrial Age was a brief, necessary glitch, a time when we had to turn men into

What's the most important skill to possess in the 21st century? Is it a hard or soft skill? In my mind, "most important" connotates towards an end-all-be-all type of skill that would allow one

Let's start with a bit of background as in 1769, Zeitgeist was a term that represented a way of naming the character of an age. For German thinkers like Herder, it was an attempt to describe how culture,

As per definition, I'd define being chronically offline as spending much of one's waking hours not on the internet on an almost consistent basis. The opposite could basically be the definition of being

Life ever hardly goes back to normal the way before once this said normalness gets disrupted, yet it's almost an inherent human ability to do our level best to try taking life back to normal. ​I wonder

She loves her job, even though it doesn't pay well enough to cover all her basic needs and would rather stay at her present job than find a relatively better-paying one that solves for the necessity of

At least for me, working out the math to put 10x the effort to reach an arbitrary standard of success feels increasingly absurd if the baseline keeps shifting and the process of getting there is more like

At least over here, there's been this trend of teens and young adults nonchalantly uttering "we're outside" whenever they're out and about doing outdoor activities that range from picnics at

Can one spend too much time thinking about thinking? As in, getting lost in second level thoughts based on their first level thoughts? ​I'm thinking of getting a burger. What are burgers made up of again?

Depending on the timeframe, consistent creative work is a paradox of sorts, at least in how we've been taught to think about it. For example and from the outside looking in, creating a piece of art everyday

I think the modem era of internet connectivity was a masterclass in patience. It was a time when access was more of a ritual. As long as it takes to wait for the connectivity to negotiate its handshake,

There's this new word that I've heard repeatedly as of late that I decided to look into, which is homogeneous. This can be defined with this rather common example of milk, which appears uniform to the

Despite it being an unreliable source of lasting change, motivations that come to us from outside ourselves, e.g praise, rewards, deadlines, or other people's expectations can still get us moving in the

In some ways, the internet personalities that have sprung up over the years, especially the younger ones with their rich lifestyles and immense, unverified claims of wealth, all have this peculiar trait