What Flourishes When Light Withdraws
Of all pollutions, darkness seems simplest to overcome. Close your eyes and darkness arrives. But try closing eyelids in a bright room—they never fully dark. Excess light qualifies as pollution becaus...
Work With What You Don't Know
A student sits before me, convinced his youth is a creative disability. "I haven't experienced enough to write," he says, as if creativity were a warehouse requiring inventory. I tell him something th...
Taste Disguised as Analysis
We judge ideas constantly—proposals at work, student projects, design concepts. Yet most evaluation operates through taste disguised as analysis. Someone presents a concept and you respond "I don't th...
Clarity Arrives After We Stop Preparing for It
Clarity arrives like an uninvited guest after we've stopped preparing for its arrival. The hand that hesitates before marking paper knows something the confident stroke never will. In productive confu...
Righteousness as Pressure Valve for Unprocessed Grief
People struggle to change their behaviour (even when they desperately want to) because past trauma distorts perception—making stagnation feel like safety and making necessary change feel like danger. ...
Applying Crystalline Logic to Enzymatic Phenomena
Cables form the fundamental logic of how our world works. Not the physical objects, but the protocol—the assumption that connection requires hierarchical pathways. Even wireless connections operate on...
The Bridges We Build Towards Moving Targets
We set out to know another person the way cartographers once mapped unfamiliar coastlines—charting what appears visible, assuming the interior follows predictable contours. Except human beings possess...
The Everyday Struggle of Not Manipulating
Being available might be the most difficult thing to do—something we struggle with every day. Someone choosing a gift navigates three loyalties: give what was asked for, what you think they need, or w...
The Unmeasurable Remainder
Magnets stick to metallic surfaces because of their material properties. The reasons behind the orchestrations in our social relationships are, on the other hand, unknown. Not totally unknown—but expl...