NOT NORMAL

No one is required to be exceptional. Artists often are. Here I discuss how I reconcile a few idols of my previous self.

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.

Averaging tells us that children make us unhappy. We do not remember mean. My best memories are filled with the joys of parenthood.

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?

Hegel argues that the history of change is one of opposing ideas and their convergence into new levels of understanding. These, Hegelian Dialectics start with a taken-for-granted truth, a thesis. The opposition then presents a disclaimer to this thesis: i.e. an antithesis. Antitheses cast doubt on the thesis through a myriad of paths. However, all of these introduce a tension with the thesis. This tension eventually finds resolution when a synthesis comes along and provides a

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.

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

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.

Some thoughts that came up after listening to a new song.

Everyone should be able to vote in an election. Be them war retirees, migrant workers, or newborn babies. Voting makes society humane.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Reductionism is central to science, fake data directly threatens this foundation as it pollutes our minds with spurious information

Ambivalence is strange. A pull that pushes and breaks. A feeling of possibility and joy with anger and trauma. Useful, purposeful, enraged.

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.

Media defines our culture. For years Trevor Noah contextualized my news. His empathy and nuance will be missed. Godspeed Trevor!

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.

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.

This post builds huge implications from one societal change. I cannot imagine it's falsifiable. But its pseudotheory never leaves my head.

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.

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