December 27, 2016
Conscious Torpor
And just like that the house was quiet again. The source text for this black out poem was an old issue of Philosophy Now magazine.
December 27, 2016
December 27, 2016
December 27, 2016
I’m a human hamster, that’s what life-logging taught me
As some of you may or may not know, I started dabbling in the Quantified Self movement and tracking many of my activities throughout the course of a day. I ran the experiment for several months. My biggest take away was how much of a human hamster I am, and...
December 27, 2016
Herodotus, the Man Who Invented History
In the 5th century B.C. Herodotus set off on an ambitious mission to record the glorious achievements and remarkable events of the past so that these things wouldn’t be forgotten. He declares at the start of the Histories: “Herodotus of Halicarnassos here displays his inquiry, so that human achievements may...