Time is one of those concepts that I think could have tons of different words for it, but somehow we just merged everything into one four-letter word. We all decided to take all the different representations of "time" and build one, coherent form of it in our communal understanding. Therefore, since we have one word for it, our brain never really recognizes the distinct types of time, because it just says "hey, there's another time, I'll recognize it as time." In our b...
5 weeks into my 2021 fall semester:
record scratch Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.
Even though I was ...
We’re all familiar with the “Can I speak to the manager?” Karens that we know and love. Most of us are aware of this phenomenon — a white woman taking advantage of her privilege to unreasonably dispute about a subpar (or slightly flawed) service. This is significantly problematic for various reasons (reinforcing socioeconomic disparities, targeting essential workers and small businesses, etc.), but in the context of consuming products and services, Karens aren’t too far off from the nor...
I've been reading and thinking about how quantum mechanics could influence how we think about our reality, and it's so insane to me that our entire idea of reality could be changed by these random quantum phenomena.
Starting with the philosophical lenses we can choose to see reality through: one is idealism, where ideas are the only things that are real, rather than materials. An example of this thinking is Plato's forms, where he's like- real material trees change all the time s...
It’s happening — I’m finally getting around to that New Year’s resolution of starting to write. Just six or so months late, but still proud of myself for actually starting to do it so late in the year. I feel like for other things, it’s like, if by six months in you haven’t started to do it, there’s no hope for that thing actually happening bud. But here I am!
I thought I’d start with a meta note on my thoughts on writing itself and what my goals are. Some of the first goals that come ...