All Writings

Happy new year, dear friends.It’s sweet to think about this small phrase and how it’s made almost entirely of promises—about what we’ve returned to, and what we’re finally willing...

“The days go on and on. They don’t end.”— Taxi Driverso i’ve been on a break for a little over a week now, and it feels good. After a long year, it feel...

In Fossil Future, Alex Epstein describes how millions of years of organic waste, immense pressure, and time sedimented beneath the earth to become fossil fuels—concentrated, volatile energ...

A few months ago, I started writing a blog post arguing that our growing dependence on AI would eventually lead to a kind of cognitive atrophy—like outsourcing too much of our thinking would make t...

Learning habit is understanding that i can get indoor complacent when i refuse to step out of the house for a very long time. And i find it hard to break out of this loop until i find myself halluc...

spending considerable time at home now and having to fix my own meal is one of the few interesting developments in the last one month. It started as a challenge to compare how much i spend buying f...

For C, J and OToday marks the longest I’ve spent outside my house since April. Last week, my friend C texted me with the heartbreaking news that his mother had passed awa...

I have been kind of feeling time anxious these past days; that mental state you know there’s only little time left, you have much to do but can barely bring yourself up to do anything to begin with...

Not been feeling quite well these past days. Not that I’m slouching dizzy in a hospital bed or wrapped in wool in my room, I’ve just been struck with cold with the recent incessant downpour that le...

One would imagine fat balls weighing around the necks of my fingers now, I’ve not written in a little over three months and aside that I have a huge pound of thought to shed for it, I feel guilty f...

Trying to actively journal these past days has been extremely difficult for me, well, for tangible reasons actually. First, I have been faced with work appraisal in the second week of the new year ...

One toxic habit that I’ve been recently trying to tame is how I think about the worst-case scenarios when making decisions or when looking forward to certain ends. Think about a fatalist’s approach...

It’s 8pm in Agbowo. New Year’s Day. I have just returned to my apartment, and back from home where I have spent two days with my family to observe the crossover night and to celebrate the new year’...

& remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world…– Ocean VuongSome Fridays ago, I’d decided to spend some time in the front balcony of my apartment to...

What does happiness taste like?The whole idea of happiness is not something I can easily relate to, maybe I don’t know how to, or maybe because I know how ephemeral &...