5: the differents

Last time I wrote about what about myself I would want to persist throughout my life. This week I’ll have it’s compliment. Here’s where I want to change… More small braveries. Saying something in a meeting, talking to someone new, following my instinct on a project at work, or going the path less trodden. I don’t…

5: the sames

I was having a conversation with a friend a few weeks ago about what about ourselves we’d like to change and what we’d like to stay the same. We think a lot about what we’d like to change about ourselves, but it’s helpful too to think about what values we have now that we wouldn’t want…

5: Boring reasons

I saw an article earlier this week about apps to download to solve something they were called “micro-boredom.” The brief moments between activities when you have nothing to do and there might be a chance you’ll become not-entertained. It was an idea that rubbed me the wrong way. I thought about all the times I mindlessly scroll through…

Bustling thoughts: the decision happened without you

It’s either clear that philosophy really affects me or that I’m a philosophical person. Something else that I always keep in mind that my philosophy professor (you sh/could add the word “design” in there somewhere, but ‘philosophy’ is more appropriate) made an offhand comment in class once that it’s difficult to actually remember the point…

PHAMETRICS // 35

It’s been a while and I guess I still live here. It’s three months since the last time I did this, but I’ll try to catch you up! Don’t hold your breath, I have a lot of ground to cover.

Pursue v protect?

“In the West…people believe they must ‘pursue happiness’ as if it were some kind of flighty bird that is always out of reach.  In the East, we believe we are born with happiness and one of life’s important tasks, my mother told me, is to protect it” Le Ly Hayslip from When Heaven and Earth Changed…