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Writings
Optimism Amidst Complexity
There's an inherent negativity bias in the mind and in the culture. It is propagated by the media, our speech, and the feeling that...
Folsom Street Fair
Broad daylight on Folsom Street. Two in the afternoon. Pinkish cocks everywhere. Hairy asses in leather thongs. Men in latex flog each...
No Problems
The biggest thing we can do to change our reality, is change our minds. The mind is a problem solving machine, chewing on what to eat for...
Reducing Radical Roxy
There was a calling for less. I minimized until my life was reduced to one backpack for three and a half years of travel. It was two...
Deconstructing Deja Vu
Deja vu is commonly described as a sensation of knowing that what is experienced now has occurred before. For some, it's a positive omen,...
A Burning Man Wedding
We had just finished watching a hobbit-like man dressed as Jesus ordain the couple. "You may now kiss the bride," he proclaimed to the...
A New Friend
It had been a year since I had seen Ayah. Our last moments together were in Prague, on the frozen mouth of the Charles River, the air...
Broken Shells
For weeks on end, he was suspended in the belly of the ocean, in the watery expanse of light between Earth and sky. He had not touched...
Sometimes it feels like we are fucked
"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know. " -Lao Tsu The people with the least interesting things to say are the ones...
How dull am I?
It was June in Berlin. We were living in a friend’s penthouse, making ambient music and barely working. Our weekends consisted of naked...
The Novikov Consistency Principle & Quantum Mechanics
The Novikov Consistency Principle does not give space to the dreaminess of possibility, but the concrete nature that what has happened...
The Wisdom of Carmen Maria Machado’s Prologue for In The Dream House
Prologues usually irritate me. They read as a clumsy info dump, and can often ruin a book by congesting the reader with too many back...
Reflections on Milan Kundera’s Death
On July 11, 2023, Milan Kundera died in Paris. I was halfway through his novel Immortality, when I received the news of his passing. It...
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