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NOT NORMAL
A random collection of back-of-the-envelope calculations, short stories, half-baked theories, bad poems, and more.
Many of these relate to the idea of normalcy, what it entails, and what it does not.
We are fortunate to live in a time where right and wrong, traditions, and norms are being renegotiated.
Yet, only through exploring what is normal can we experience the depths of the clash.
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Overton Morals and My Accepting Harry Potter Again
No one is required to be exceptional. Artists often are. Here I discuss how I reconcile a few idols of my previous self.
Jun 30
I know when your memory started
I cannot remember when I lied. But I feel the shame I felt when I learned you knew about it. I failed you. I learned better.
Apr 28
Enjoying My Joy's Joy
Averaging tells us that children make us unhappy. We do not remember mean. My best memories are filled with the joys of parenthood.
Oct 22, 2025
Scaling a Golden Shadow
We often think of our mistakes, how to minimize them, and remove them. But out there is a life we could grow into. Why not explore it more?
Oct 11, 2025
Dialectical Contributions: Triangles All the Way Up
Hegel argues that the history of change is one of opposing ideas and their convergence into new levels of understanding. These, Hegelian...
Mar 7, 2025
Global Warming and Toastier AI Winters
Winter is coming is a common saying for AI. Yet, every winter is warmer, we keep moving the goalposts as our world becomes more algorithmic.
Jan 16, 2025
Shame on the Surprised
I am a bit confused. Why are so many people surprised today? Did I miss something? If you need help with your migration give me a call
Nov 6, 2024
Online Neurodivergence and the Liberal University
It truly annoys me when people say universities are liberal or that there are too many neurodiverse people. Here is a small rant on this.
Oct 9, 2024
I Procrastinate Myself into Mental Slavery
Some thoughts that came up after listening to a new song.
Oct 9, 2024
One Household One Vote
Everyone should be able to vote in an election. Be them war retirees, migrant workers, or newborn babies. Voting makes society humane.
Jul 30, 2024
Munificent Labor Markets Create Flater Firms
Where, I link civil rights to the emergence of flatter firms, the rise in CEO compensation, the decrease in care work at home, and more.
May 17, 2024
Reviewer Compersion
Compersion means experiencing joy in the joy of others. I feel it today as I read the (hopefully) 1st paper to be accepted that I reviewed.
May 7, 2024
How did you tell your children about climate change?
My daughter will live to see climate change become under control. Here I write my initial thoughts on how to introduce her generation's foe.
Nov 7, 2023
On Serendipity and Joy
Joy happens at random intervals. But one can design life to maximize the number of joy events per unit of time, i.e. its cross-section.
Oct 31, 2023
Grand Opportunities Not Challenges
What if we think about what is possible and not what the problems are? In an era of boiling water superconductors how will our lives change?
Aug 2, 2023
On Dostoevsky, Ariely, and Gino
Reductionism is central to science, fake data directly threatens this foundation as it pollutes our minds with spurious information
Jul 14, 2023
The Big Ambivalence
Ambivalence is strange. A pull that pushes and breaks. A feeling of possibility and joy with anger and trauma. Useful, purposeful, enraged.
May 28, 2023
On Exercising Hope
Hope is what makes me human, what makes me wake up every morning. As I pursue it, hope provides new marvels and adventures. God I love hope.
Jan 25, 2023
Happily Trevor After
Media defines our culture. For years Trevor Noah contextualized my news. His empathy and nuance will be missed. Godspeed Trevor!
Dec 14, 2022
Emancipate Yourself From Mental [Load] Slavery
A written proof of me not being able to do a tiny thing at home without telling someone/anyone about it. The gender care gap is a sad truth.
Nov 26, 2022
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Pet Talk: Smaller than Small Talk
After years of traumatic pet talk experience, I came to realize how much it has stunted my emotional growth. Pet talk is truly the worst.
Nov 8, 2022
A Pseudotheory on the Pursuit of Equality and of Lost Prosperity
This post builds huge implications from one societal change. I cannot imagine it's falsifiable. But its pseudotheory never leaves my head.
Aug 22, 2022
Why don't we believe what others tell us?
Confidence is not my strong suit. Here I discuss a case in which I felt mesmerized by the confidence of others on their own worldviews.
Aug 22, 2022
Doctoral Adolescence
A remembrance of times past, on how being a doctoral student has the same anxieties, hopes and want of transgression as being a young human
Jun 21, 2022
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