Something happened last week that made me realize something funny about myself: I am coping hard in one aspect of life. I always pretend I don’t care about things. I make fun of things. I ridicule things. But that’s a coping mechanism because honestly, I care a lot. I actually care so much, that it…
My 4 favorite heavy metal singers with angel-like cleans and super sick grunts
My 4 favorite heavy metal singers with angel-like cleans and super sick grunts. Learn who they are!
Why I struggle with working in a traditional office setting
+ learn how I cosplayed as a productive coworker 💅 I want you to answer one question when you’re done reading this article, and that is: can you relate? Please comment here, or wherever I’ve linked this article. Thank you. Now that I’m not working in a traditional office setting, I have time to reflect…
You are not enough
What capitalist society ingrains in us is highly toxic This question is keeping me up at night: when am I enough? With that, I mean: As a human being, am I good enough as I am right now? Am I doing enough useful things? Am I productive enough? What is the baseline of this concept?…
I lost something precious (without realizing)
Did you lose it too? It’s 2009. I’m getting on the bus to travel back to my student dorm. I just visited my parents for the weekend to catch up on things. I don’t have a car, so I always use public transit to reach the village I grew up in. Thankfully, there is a…
Jack of all trades, master of none
About that one time in my life I tried to specialize and it backfired tremendously It took me way too long to admit to myself that I like being a jack of all trades and a master of none. I cannot for the life of me retrieve a lot of joy from doing one thing…
Mental sorrows without a stack trace
Trying to debug my mental health, but sadly I just have to accept that there’s not one answer Mental health issues are not new to me at all, I’ve been dealing with them since age 16-17. I’ve been depressed twice, the last time was at age 22. Even though it’s been 15 years since my…
Worries from an automation-skeptic
Automation makes sense in a few sub-contexts, but should not be taken to the extreme. I’ve been an automation skeptic as long as I’ve been working in IT, an industry that’s all about automation. That doesn’t make sense on a superficial level, but I feel like I’ve been doing useful work. The fact that you…