Posts tagged: personal
The Internet Used to Feel Like a Library
I have watched the Internet slowly change from a place where people shared what they knew into one where nearly every question is treated as a chance to sell something. I know why it happened. I still miss what we've lost.
The Weight of Unfinished Things
Sometimes what leaves us tired isn't the work we've done, but the things we keep putting off: the unanswered message, the apology, the hard conversation, the decision we're avoiding. Perhaps it's time to close a few of those open loops.
Of Love, Lemons, and the Games We Play
What does a fifty-year-old economics paper about defective used cars have to do with modern dating? Quite a lot, apparently. When nobody can tell sincerity from pretence, trust becomes expensive, honesty starts to feel like a liability, and even people looking for genuine connections learn to play games they never...
On reclaiming the lost art of long-form prose
Whatever happened to long-form prose? In this era of social media, where status updates and 140-character tweets dominate our attention spans, the art of writing at length seems to be fading into obscurity. It's a trend that's been happening for years, as brevity has become the preferred mode of communication...
Of love and timing
When Love finds you, it's seldom at your best. Rather, it happens upon you at your worst - when you've lost all faith in yourself and your confidence lies tattered in a thousand scraps. It finds you to patiently put those pieces back, one after the other, painstakingly. It finds...