This post is about a common failure mode I see in myself. And when I say common, I mean like maybe one of the core triggers of my anxiety and biggest blocks to my productivity/goal-achievement. Common. I don’t know at the moment a good way of describing it, nor do…

I decided to post an email I wrote (lightly edited) about my thoughts on the blood clotting controversy with certain COVID-19 vaccines. I may write a fuller post on this topic in future. The question of whether to approve (COVID) vaccines which have side effects is tricky and ethically fraught. …

Note: this post was written in August 2020 (and thus reflects my self at the time), I just forgot to publish it until now (April 2021). So, I recently experienced a moral dilemma. (You know, like the things you learn about in philosophical thought experiments). This was great because it…

There have been a lot of significant days in my life. The day I was born. My 19th birthday, when I arrived in Beijing after a couple of weeks travelling across Europe and Russia. The day I met my first love. …

Following my recent ‘not a blog post’ — in which I got inspired to Actually Start Blogging regularly — and my subsequent not writing a blog post for 10 days, I’m going to try and Actually Write another post. Again, though, I’m low on time. It’s 10pm on a Thursday…

The name of this blog post (which isn’t a blog post) references a cool-sounding Iranian film that I haven’t actually seen. But that’s not important. The point of this post (which isn’t a post) is just to be a post which I publish, even if it’s not good or interesting…

As I sit to write this, on a Sunday afternoon, I am taking a well-earned (I think?) day off from ‘work’ (I use inverted commas because I’m a student, and my work is just reading and writing… which is pretty fun and not super work-y). Like most people, I feel…

As I sit to write this, it is currently 23:42 on a Saturday night (I actually have to Google ‘time’ to find this out, as I’ve removed the time from the corner of my laptop screen to give myself a task-, rather than time-, focus, but that’s a story for…

Here’s an oddity. I love coffee (that’s not the oddity, keep reading). I love a hot cup of coffee on a cold day, and I love a cool glass of iced coffee on a hot day. (Still not the oddity, keep going). OK, here’s the oddity. As everyone knows, if…