Status Update
Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing well. Here in Sydney, we are in lockdown, so I haven’t been going anywhere. A few updates on my end: * I joined the Foster cowriting program with a scholarship * Learning Japanese is going exceptionally well * Conversation Culture is still running weekly,...
Learning and Language
I have been wondering how much of this is also applicable to learning any language, and how much of this even applicable to learning *anything at all*. What are the mistakes we all tend to make when learning, and how is it that we can overcome them?...
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“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” When we are born, we are given a name. We walk through life with a strong attachment to it, as if something about those syllables revealed who we really are. We pick up many more names on the way. I...
Truths about Beliefs
In this piece I want to demonstrate the following three propositions; 1. Our beliefs necessarily prevent or enable us to get what we value out of life. 2. We do not choose our beliefs. 3.Beliefs are unworthy of respect...
The Overrated Nature of "Nature"
When people use the word “nature” what they usually mean seems to be “things that happen without people doing things”. Notice something? Like how arbitrary it is. Why do we so quick to separate humans and nature as if they were two entirely separable things?...