I have been reading Stephen Fry’s Making History and it got me thinking about history and my hate-love relationship with it. Growing up, there was a hierarchy of subjects at school. Maths, “science 1&rd . . . Read more

Life is profoundly sad. It is filled with loneliness, with regrets, lost chances, sad memories, words you can never take back, friends you’ll never see again, fractured pieces of your Self floating across the ocean of Life. But on the stage, you forget. You forget the profu . . . Read more

We were sitting at the far end of the pub, tired, exhausted, and relieved. I was slowly wiping the water that had condensed on the glass of my IPA with my fingertips, or was it a Belgian? We had conjoined two adjacent tables. The pub was playing some recent-old pop music, as usual. The lights wer . . . Read more

One of the most important lessons of Thinking, Fast and Slow is that our brains are unable to analyze real world data objectively. We alter our memories and retroactively modify our experiences to fit a story. T . . . Read more

I’ve recently been spending a lot of time thinking about what I want to do with my life. Turns out this is a really hard question. The biggest difficulty is probably trying to understand what it means to do something with your life. Right now I’m coming back from a dan . . . Read more