assemblage of choice paralysis — Amidst dusk, I stood alone in a sprawling, chaotic marketplace. Stalls stretched endlessly, selling sleek, high-tech smartphones. The crowd was full of anticipation. I grabbed a device. Its screen lit up, flooding me with flashes and buzzing alerts. Each ping of my phone further itching my curiosity. …

vision of a resilient metropolis — I was not a participant, but a silent watcher. Visions played before my eyes, pausing just long enough for me to grasp their depictions. The horizon stretched out, creating a dim shadow over the city, with its edges smudged and trembling. And the horizon provided a glow over the metropolis…

A short story The great myth was in our belief that we as humans could ascend to Gods; we inevitably gave rise to Gods that held sway over us, whether we were consciously aware of this or not. Originally conceived by the boundless ambitions of multiple corporations, Medusa was originally…

Yuval Harari and some other interesting quotes — “What nukes are to the physical world…AI is to the virtual and symbolic world.” — Yuval Harari “Nukes don’t make stronger nukes. AI makes stronger AI.” — The AI Dilemma AI, AGI, and Cybernetics I’ll be posting some more organized forms and discussions on this content (planned video and podcast) however, I wanted to…

finding essence in our delusion. “How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?” — Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men I recently rewatched and read the novel No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. And I appreciated how much it forced me to reflect…

On romanticizing the mundane — “When we have worn out the interest we once took in death, when we realize we have nothing more to gain from it, we fall back on birth, we turn to a much more inexhaustible abyss.” — E.M. Cioran Creativity is a confusing endeavor. Especially given the fact we live…

it’s musings all the way down — “A young English lady used to laugh maliciously every time she received notice of the death of an acquaintance. This unusual behavior — in sheer contrast with her overall good manners and courtesy — well highlights what we always give away when we laugh: that personal agreement made, deep within…

with Carl Jung, Nietzsche, and Deleuze — “The persona is a complicated system of relations between individual consciousness and society, fittingly enough a kind of mask, designed on the one hand to make a definite impression upon others, and, on the other, to conceal the true nature of the individual.” — Carl Jung “With all that which…

Does the New Age understand what it is to be a desiring machine? — “The body without organs is in fact produced as a whole, but a whole alongside the parts — a whole that does not unify or totalize them, but that is added to them like a new, really distinct part.” — Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus “Prefer what is positive and multiple…