Meaning is simply everything you build to support the weight of existence. Meaning is built! Not found. Meaning is personal. Anything can be meaningful, but not everything is. Without meaning, life feels heavy and burdened. Art is meaningful when and because it supports the weight of the unsaid. Beliefs are meaningful when and because they support the weight of the unknown and the unknowable. Values are meaningful when and because they support the weight of mortality and suffering.

I stumbled upon this absolute gem of a sentence in Cercle’s interview of Sofiane Pamart after his spectacular performance under the Northern Lights in Lapland. …

I wanted to document my favorite counter-argument against a particular flavor of antinatalism: that the world would be better off, for some definition of “better off”, with fewer (or no) humans. Here’s my argument: To say the state of the world is sub-par, or that it would be “better off”…

Falling in love is a lot like skydiving. First you hear about other people doing it. Seems crazy. Then one of your friends does it. Now it’s real. They tell you how exhilarating it was. You’re curious. Your mind starts to open to it. Opportunity arrives. The logistics finally line…

This is a breakdown of a first-time allocation of your accumulated cash in order to try and preserve and even increase its value in the short and long term. DISCLAIMER: I’m not an expert!!! This is an attempt to capture my own bootstrap into the world of financial pragmatism and…

Comfortable silences Familiarity Laughter Negotiating Projects Rituals and routines Serendipity Indulging each other Telling each other “fuck you”

Compliance to organization suppresses unproductive movement and enables directional movement. Compliance to dysfunctional organization results in paralysis. Non-compliance re-enables movement, albeit disorganized, chaotic, and uncontrolled. Anarchism calls for non-compliance. Anarchism is a posture that provides relief from paralysis caused by organizational dysfunction. Corollary: Organization is something that, when functional and complied to, drives productivity.

I diverted my savings contribution for this month to an Indian COVID relief cause. It took me some time to figure out how to do this. I donated to this fundraiser: https://milaap.org/fundraisers/Donate-for-Oxygen This fundraiser through Milaap contributes to the procurement of oxygen concentrators for patients that need respiratory care. Update…

This week I paid a visit to my building’s garbage area in the courtyard, only to find that my key wouldn’t work to open the fence gate (yes, I tried whatever I could to get it open) and ultimately I had to return to my apartment with my bags of…