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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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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
On Alter Egos and Algorithms at Work
An ode to the beauty that lies within ethnographies from the naive eyes of someone whose ADHD will never let him do one.
Dec 9, 2022
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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
A death per million
This month, the world tunes in to watch its religion jubilee play out on altars built over the bodies of tributes; one per million humans.
Nov 23, 2022
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
On A Woman is No Man
Some books send shockwaves as you read them. Waves that ebb away as they shift your self inside you. A woman is no man is my loudest example
Nov 4, 2022
Normal Joy
I used to think that normal things were bland. That special was best. How wrong I was. Oh how much joy lies within a normal act.
Nov 1, 2022
A Blinding Brown Rainbow
Have you ever felt swept away; your life and image of yourself changed in an instant? You'd learned to despise change. But you love this one
Sep 1, 2022
On the Alien Logic of the Cold War
Isn't it crazy that hydrogen bombs exist just because people disliked who owned the companies in a country far far away from theirs?
Aug 29, 2022
Yes, and: On the Improv Logic of Sustainable Development
In a world in which ESG ratings have low correlations, is improvisation a way out? If we do not who is right, then no one is wrong? #IDK
Aug 24, 2022
More Female, Brown, and Queer
Although I firmly believe in equality. I also know how gendered aggression is. To step away from aggression societal change is needed.
Aug 24, 2022
Jr: On Advertising Lack of Originality
I've always find it funny how we all need to write evidence that someone's parent forgot to create a new name for their Jr., III, IV...
Aug 23, 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
Wait until after you are a full professor. NO!
On good and weak advice. Such as: "Please fight for justice and climate change, but only after you are a full professor"
Aug 15, 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
Salaried Algorithms
Algorithms run our lives. Some run on servers, some in bureaus. Here I propose a nomenclature to bundle digital and salaried algorithms.
Jun 9, 2022
Educating Royalty
Today I learned that next year the future monarch of the kingdom where I work will be among my students. Here I try to put this into my head
May 30, 2022
On r/Place and Sagittarius A*
Shitty week. But what's better than some basic science to bring perspective into one's existential angst. This year has been so great so far
May 17, 2022
On Abortion and The Salvadorian Case
A couple of thoughts about women going to jail in El Salvador for stillbirth and miscarriages. Not a happy post.
May 11, 2022
Racism by Another Name
Last Monday, I received my residence permit for Germany. A permit that took two years for me to process. #FeelingWelcomed and with a purpose
Apr 28, 2022
Perfectionism as a Philosophical Razor
I find perfectionism to be a red flag. Nothing has ever been perfect. I know this is a cynical view. But one based on my lived experience.
Apr 24, 2022
The Laziness Based View
Laziness is the key defining principle of the systems that made us. Yet business defines our lives. Chill down, act like a system!
Apr 10, 2022
Manicured Ignorance
We choose what we ignore more than what we learn. Yet, we use our knowledge to define who we are. This is ludicrous and so absurdly normal
Apr 7, 2022
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