On change – Dave Martin

If someone points out a flaw in you, you can either get upset (which may mean you acknowledge it) or you can actively try change it. & what humour’s got to do with it.

There is no perfect person. We all do absurd things and have neuroses that make no, or very little, sense to others. From time to […]

‘It is your life. Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself; don’t swim in the same slough.’ – The philosophy of: Charles Bukowski (Is a life stripped of goals and dreams a meaningless one?) + The philosophy of: Modest Mouse

Is an ambition-free life, one ‘free’ of dreams a meaningless one? Is existence completely in the present a purposeless one? In Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot, a […]

The Philosophy of: Daniel from Everybody Loves Somebody – Does standing still mean you not only resist (natural) change but also become incapable of handling and adapting to it?

Some of the greatest, most significant and most powerful moments in your life may be the ones where you just stop, breathe, live and take […]

Don’t think of a pink monkey. Don’t think of a pink monkey. Don’t think of a pink monkey.

When someone tells you ‘Don’t panic!’ or ‘Don’t get stressed’ or even ‘Don’t worry’, the last thing that your brain hears is: ‘Panic!’, ‘Get stressed’ […]

Maybe living the good life is not about being invincible but about being adaptable.

Your body will fail you, at some point. So maybe being invincible isn’t realistic. Maybe, but maybe not. Maybe instead of saying ‘Nothing will ever […]

The Philosophy of: Triple J’s Alex Dyson – New Year’s Resolutions are dumb

If you want to change something, or do something better, you a) don’t have to wait until an arbitrary time marker (a new calendar year) […]

A Deep Dive into: AI [pt.1] – It’s good that humans only live to about 80 right now because robots are soon going to first fuck up our lives, and probably not long after the human race will be completely wiped out. (+ the philosophy of: Sophia the sassy robot)

If intelligence is the processing of info, and computers can already do it a fuckton quicker than us, we’re fucked. For thousands of years people […]

The philosophy of: inertia (& the philosophy of: Paul Rulkens – If you want results you’ve never had before, you have to start doing things you’ve never done before. And why the majority is always wrong.)

Philosophy and physics are like 2 twins separated and birth and brought up in different families – at the heart of it, they’re fundamentally similar. […]

Change is neither good nor bad, it just is. And it can’t be stopped, so embrace it.

You yourself are a part of [this] universe; and for any one of nature’s parts, that which is assigned to it by the World-Nature or helps […]

Maybe knowing yourself isn’t important, but knowing that you’re maybe you’re not right about ANYTHING is

You change every second. Every split second. Because every second, every split second you come closer to the end of your life. So if you’re […]