lately I’ve been watching a lot of videos on YouTube about China. it’s partly due to all the chaos around Trump’s tariff, but mostly these are videos done by expats sharing about their life in China. from the technology, the culture, the speed of development there. then I got into the economy topic, binge watching…
What is reality? It might seem like a straightforward question, but Ursula Franklin, a pioneering thinker in technology and society, saw it as layered and complex. In her book The Real World of Technology, she outlined four types of reality that shape human experience. These realities—vernacular, extended, constructed, and projected—define how we interact with the…
I’ve been wanting to reflect of the past 2 years and 2 months I spent not working, but it never felt urgent or important (to anyone else) so I kept postponing it. But today is merely the third day I’m officially back employed and I still have 3.25 hours before a meeting, so I decide…
I was listening to this interview of Iain McGilchrist. He was explaining how the mechanistic metaphors that we often use in our daily lives could be more harmful than they are helpful. When we think of our bodies in terms of machines, it will consequently trickle down to our reductionistic approach in problem solving. We’re…