[This post was inspired by a great article by Tim Boyle published in June last year for the Sydney Morning Herald. Article link is here.] Last night, Roger Federer wrapped up the Australian Open with his 20th grand slam title win, at the frankly astonishing age of 36. It was a five-set affair, with ebbs … Continue reading On boredom.
I've decided to write a small piece on each book that I read, for the dual purpose of both reflecting on the book itself and to encourage me to dig a little deeper after I finish. I'll try to do one of these a month, but it really depends on my speed of reading in … Continue reading Book: Louis Theroux’s ‘The Call of the Weird’
"History is bunk." - Henry Ford It is a somewhat counter-intuitive idea. The idea that the past has relevance to the future. A friend of mine recently lambasted me for my continual reference to things past. With an air of exasperation, she demanded to know why I insisted on always looking backwards when all we … Continue reading On past and future.
Lately, a particular thought of mine has been increasingly recurrent: As society learns to incorporate a rapidly expanding and increasingly complicated list of technologies within itself in the name of progress and the future, the gap between those with the skills required to understand these technologies and everyone else who merely sink into an elevated … Continue reading A note on the pace of the world.
It's 3:41am. I've been up since 2:26am, having originally crashed out at 12:35am. The remaining jet lag of an overseas trip. According to my phone, it's still 26 degrees. As I lay awake, the fierce glow of my laptop charger and a dim moonlight peering through the blinds provided an eerie sense of undarkness to … Continue reading Belated Resolutions.
Today I finally finished Marcus Aurelius' Meditations to a satisfactory degree, by which I mean in full, thoroughly and with the accompanying notes for each entry at the back of the book. Marcus explores many ideas, and owing to the personal nature of the book there's a hefty amount of repetition, but he especially emphasises his … Continue reading A good life.
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