Feeling Strange(r) in a Strange Land

Can You Encode Taste?

AI didn’t make me lazy. It handed me my own subconscious. Right now I’m eating turkey pepper soup at my work desk, and I have multiple jobs running with AI. One agent is taking a client project from brief to restructured

I’m not hiding anymore

I have always lived with this tension between honesty and performance. To an extent, we all do. I don’t know exactly when it started, but it has always been there subconsciously, colouring my work and my lived experience

Work Diaries: January Dump

What have I been working on this week? This is a new series I’ve decided to start, something a bit more informal and relaxed. But a good way to document what I am working on and thinking about. — January has been off to

The Caves We Fear to Tread

The magic you’re looking for is in the work you are avoiding – Joseph Campbell. I have been thinking quite a bit about caves in narratives. I recently rewatched ‘Dracula Untold’, a movie where the protagonist, Vladmir ha

Cultivating a Creative Life

I have always wanted to lead a creative life. The idea of spending most of my time immersed in the art, act and process of making sounds like the most appealing life to me. Not fame or incredible wealth, but creativity.

Collapsing the Space Between You and What You Want

Some weeks ago, I was listening to some YouTuber wax on some esoteric concept or the other, and he made an off handed comment on his way to making another more salient point…about how sometimes, we don’t get the things w

The Philosophy of Curation

The concept of curation* has been on my mind for at least the past 2 years. Slowly coalescing over time as I have been fixated on the idea of defining and creating specific spaces and experiences around me. This is a nat

Deepening the Texture of Your Life 

As you walk down the path of intentional living, you will end up refining, curating and building a life tailored to your soul. Your routine, your habits, and your environment all working together to move you to the place

Sometimes, Progress is Continuing Old Plans…

As we get things going in the New Year, I have found myself in reflection, as we all do at this time. The key questions on our minds are – what do we want and what will we do to get it? If we have been doing this for a w

End by Doing it Perfectly

A couple years ago, I wrote this piece – Start by Doing it Badly. Inspired by a Jordan Peterson video by the same title, it is a powerful concept that can be used to free you from the shackles of perfectionism and serve

How to Get Things Done When You Don’t Feel Like It

Winning the war against the Resistance Around the end of last year, a friend asked me a question. He had two websites to get done before he was done for the year, but he was finding it tough to muster up the motivation t

Some Ideas to Keep in Mind as the Year Begins

So it has been about two weeks into the new year. Things are getting into full swing. With school and work opening again, we are all easing back into our normal lives and routines. If you are reading this, you have proba

The Key to Approaching Your Goals More Effectively & with Less Stress

The other day I was on TikTok (I know, bear with me as I gag for a bit 🤮). But I came across this clip that I found useful and got me thinking more about this concept of leading and lagging indicators. This idea has its

In Praise of Cyclical Productivity

If you have been a long time follower of my projects or content, you would know I’m prone to abruptly taking time off for up to months at a time. I used to think this was an issue, but lately, I have come to look at it a

The Art of Not Trying

I stopped trying. Life has never been better. And that is so fucking weird. I mean, on one level, it feels strange not doing anything, or not having to do anything. Not feeling like I have to run on the treadmill. And it