At a time when our lives are increasingly intertwined with digital devices, the idea of digital minimalism has emerged as a powerful potential antidote to the...
Continue reading...The Sound of Silence: Rediscovering Boredom in a Noisy World
Do you get the feeling of being busy all day, watching television, scrolling to TikTok and studying online? I have this feeling of the need of...
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Recently, I was looking for a recipe to make a mousse for my brother’s birthday. For a few months we’ve been exchanging an idea of a...
Continue reading...The Self-Help Genre and its (un)Helpfulness
Self-Help books have been around for centuries, with topics spanning from guiding you to achieve your best self to books detailing on how to be rich....
Continue reading...Algorithms and Short-Form Content
Short form content is everywhere nowadays, with Tiktok, Instagram reels and Youtube shorts seemingly grabbing our collective attention span with an iron fist. At least that’s...
Continue reading...(In)Accessible Knowledge: Unpacking Google’s Power
In book “World Brain” H. G. Wells proposed the idea of World Brain, much like a big encyclopaedia which would be accessible to the majority of...
Continue reading...Music Streaming: A Perspective
I sometimes wonder how people like my dad viewed music when he was my age. These days, I can open Spotify and listen to anything from...
Continue reading...A World Without Google: Evil Deeds of Baidu
Google exited the Chinese market in 2010. For a primary schooler as I was at that time, if it was not for I am studying outside...
Continue reading...Do It Yourself, Teach Yourself: Empowering or Overwhelming?
DIY Culture, meaning “Do It Yourself” culture, is a term used to talk about people creating or doing things for themselves rather than relying on paid...
Continue reading...Why do you like what you like?
These days on social media, we see makeup trends with a set of “rules” to be followed, and everybody doing the same things the same way,...
Continue reading...Trump 2016: How Cambridge Analytica breached data privacy ethics to help Trump win.
Introduction At the time of writing this, the 2024 US presidential election is just around the corner. With Trump facing off against Harris, it is a...
Continue reading...Allowing the World Brain to Influence my Daily Decisions
A while ago I joined the waitlist for Illumicrate and Fairyloot, two monthly subscription services that provide special editions of recently released books. I didn’t have...
Continue reading...TikTok is not a credible source, and you should feel bad if you use it like one.
Early Google As I was growing up, I was always told to Google something if I didn’t have the answer to a question. As Google was...
Continue reading...Algocracy: Government by Algorithm
I am a simple man; when I see a cat video coming by on YouTube shorts recommendations I click on it. For a whole 25 seconds,...
Continue reading...Does the human brain degrade, while The World Brain progresses?
Recently, I realised that watching a full movie seems like a task and not a pleasure for me. I am not even mentioning reading or studying...
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The World Brain Rot
Reading about someone’s tattoo artist, keeping up with current world events, discovering a car heaven in Japan, or learning more about healthy and affordable food, we...
Continue reading...How does the world brain worsen the vulnerable people?
When new technologies emerge they benefit different groups at different times. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) initially provided an advantage to software developers, who gained access to...
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The Old Money Aesthetic in New Times
After the pandemic, “old money” iconography has invaded social media, particularly TikTok, Pinterest and Instagram, platforms based on visual content. The old money trend describes a...
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