Myself, Stoicism, Minimalism, and Society
I've been meditating lately, trying to fight the parts of me that aren't in equilibrium. After starting my full time job, my way of life shaped to fit the situation. Beyond the changes, those inner...
View ArticleThe Harden The Fuck Up Post!
Sometimes you need to boost up, to push yourself up. Shia LaBeouf motivational video is pretty good at that, I'll do the same in this post.
View ArticleJustification After Actions
Hello fellow readers, In this post I'll discuss a subject that has been nagging me. Justification After Actions I usually write to clear my mind about a topic. These days I can't really keep up with...
View ArticleFuturists
Hello fellow readers, In this post I'll introduce futurists, some people with a very special occupation.
View ArticleOn My Way
Hello fellow readers, In this post I'll depict the most memorable events that happened on my way to work. It's a strange world.
View Article5 In The Morning
It's 4:45am, you wake up! Rusty, you get out of bed. Man up, drink some water because your mouth is sore. You wash your face with cold water. Then, stand up for 5 minutes, simply looking at the fridge...
View ArticleIf I had to teach a child
Giving life is not a simple decision, if it even is a decision at all. The world, the societies, are moving fast. Who can tell what the future will hold. Only children and their children will be part...
View ArticleDriving In Lebanon
Hello fellow readers, This article is about driving in Lebanon. I used to spend my whole day walking until I bought a car. Walking was time-consuming and tiresome. On the long run I got used to it and...
View ArticleSociety, Hacking, Anonymity, Mystification, and Hysteria
Hello fellow readers, This post is a refresh on correlated subjects I've discussed in the past. I'm revisiting them considering the recent media coverage. Social awakening is at the door.
View ArticleWhat Needs To Change In The Lebanese Mentality
Ten years ago we moved to Lebanon. There was a culture clash. In this post I'll explain why some locals go on destructive paths. We all know generalizations have the nasty effect of activating justice...
View ArticleDeath
This is my philosophy of life. I hope it resonates with you. It's ubiquitous, we tacitly agree to it. The anxiety, the stress, the fear, the conflicts, the mystical, the norms, the religions,...
View Article9 to 5
I find it fervently infuriating when someone uses the word passion and degrades it. They degrade the meaning of the word. Passion is the ultimate upgrade of the hobby, a cultivated curiosity. Something...
View ArticleWhat Are We
We are born, we live, and we die. Yet, humans presumptuously want to ply meaning with their existence. What am I — Just a coincidence? What makes me special, am I distinguishable? We're not blind and...
View ArticlePass Time
Let's start with definitions because the words themselves are not representative of my perspective. I think there's a clear distinction between words. We have different words for a reason, they have...
View ArticleWhy Is It So Uncomfortable To Eat Alone At A Restaurant
You're hungry on your way home and are thinking of passing by a restaurant, to sit down, relax, and eat, but there's an uncertainty feeling emerging. Why is it so uncomfortable to eat alone in a...
View ArticleOut Loud
What if you could see your life from a third person point of view. What if you could get closer to yourself. Who are we anyway?
View ArticleOriginality & Creativity
We take actions based on our unconscious mind, we follow our unspoken norms and taboos. For a little while we may think we are original or creative, but we aren't — at least not following the...
View ArticleMarch 2017 Projects
Hello fellow readers, This is the first post of 2017, let's recap what I've been up to since the start of the year. Show me how you spend your day and I'll tell you what you care about
View ArticleA Case Against Misinterpretations
It has become rampant nowadays to find many persons misinterpreting or skewing evolutionary psychology studies to praise or blame the stance they fancy or despise. The slants are non-sense and blot...
View ArticleWhy Deliberate Positive Illusion Is Important
There may exist someone in your entourage, someone you may care deeply about, or maybe even yourself, that is being crushed by the real and raw perception of themselves. They may appear to an external...
View ArticleCross Culture Frustration
It's not uncommon to hear, from persons that relocated to a new country, discussions related to the dissatisfactions with the new land they've set upon or the land they've just left behind. Apart from...
View ArticleHidden Hope For Control
This article is about a rarely discussed component that resides in the background of our lives. No word clearly describes this phenomenon as it's a fusion of different ideas. We blueprint ourselves...
View ArticleOnline Convergence
This article is about nothing surprising but may act as a reminder to anyone that wanders online or that manages a community. There's too much already written about the subject of echo chambers so what...
View ArticleScale and arguments
In this article I'm going to pose a not so novel compatibilistic idea about the so-recurrent philosophical discussion of free will and determinism. However, this can apply to any topic where...
View ArticleTime On The Internet
Time can be measured in all sorts of ways, some more accurate than others, but the perception of its flow varies widely depending on the subjective experience. That's the distinction between physical...
View ArticleWill Lebanon Collapse or Will it Survive
Collapse, the word that is on everyone's lips in Lebanon. What does it mean, will Lebanon fall or survive, and what does the future have in store? "We can predict everything, except the future", I hear...
View ArticleThe Self, Metaperceptions, and Self-Transformation
How would you describe yourself? How do you usually talk about yourself? Do you feel like you are the writer of your own narrative? Who are you?
View ArticleWild Mushrooms in Lebanon
Finally, The project about mapping wild mushrooms in Lebanon is out! The project consists of a map with wild mushroom specimens, their locations, along with pictures and descriptions of them. It is...
View ArticleInternet: Medium For Communication, Medium For Narrative Control Introduction
To no one's surprise, the internet has permeated all aspects of our lives. All other means of communication have dwindled in comparison, even though the technological behemoth is relatively young...
View ArticleInternet: Medium For Communication, Medium For Narrative Control The...
Our journey begins with three terms, propaganda, influence, and persuasion. To most, they sound like synonyms but each convey a different concept. Like any form of communication the internet can be...
View ArticleInternet: Medium For Communication, Medium For Narrative Control The...
With the advent of smartphones, social media platforms are on the rise. Let's step back and try to understand what social media are, not by citing events and instances happening on the different...
View ArticleInternet: Medium For Communication, Medium For Narrative Control The...
The internet is littered with nuggets of information, some made of gold and some worthless. From this mine we can extract meta-information, inferences that can lead to more lucrative valleys. Two of...
View ArticleInternet: Medium For Communication, Medium For Narrative Control The...
In this last section of our first part about artifacts and places, we'll explore memes, internet memes, and cults, their definitions, how they have transformed and crisscrossed, their relationship,...
View ArticleInternet: Medium For Communication, Medium For Narrative Control The Actors...
The artifacts we've previously seen have given rise to new types of economies, tools, and arsenals that can be used by different actors for different incentives. Let's start by focusing on the economic...
View ArticleInternet: Medium For Communication, Medium For Narrative Control The Actors...
The internet is a new resource and when introduced in our social structures it has fueled the construction of utilities around it. Like any tool it has no effects on its own but only through its...
View ArticleInternet: Medium For Communication, Medium For Narrative Control The Actors...
Since ancient times, nations have tried to write history from their own point of view. As they say, history is written by the victors. Today, the speed of the internet allows rewriting the narrative in...
View ArticleInternet: Medium For Communication, Medium For Narrative Control Biases &...
Humans are prone to manipulations by their own experiences and biases. Let's review what are some of the cognitive biases and cultural weaknesses that make us fall for all sort of things on the...
View ArticleInternet: Medium For Communication, Medium For Narrative Control Biases &...
To be a netizen means to be part of the online social sphere. There's no way around it, to have a voice and participate people have to join a platform, which comes with its own limitations. The rules...
View ArticleInternet: Medium For Communication, Medium For Narrative Control The Big...
In this part of the series, we'll explore the bigger picture and the generic issues and 'ill effects' on societies that are brought by the emergence of the internet or accelerated by it. We'll begin...
View ArticleInternet: Medium For Communication, Medium For Narrative Control The Big...
Nobody likes to be put in a box, nobody likes to be paralyzed. In a world where the individual is put first, we want to feel in control. Yet, we are lost in a whirlpool of chaotic and clashing...
View ArticleInternet: Medium For Communication, Medium For Narrative Control The Big...
The internet brings with it technological advancements that reminds us of dystopia that sci-fi writers have written about. So let's go beyond what we've tackled so far and project ourselves in...
View ArticleInternet: Medium For Communication, Medium For Narrative Control Adapting:...
In this last part of the series we'll go over the adaptations we are undergoing to remove the frictions we have with the internet — anything to make it better suited for us. We'll take multiple...
View ArticleInternet: Medium For Communication, Medium For Narrative Control Adapting:...
The market and corporate self-regulation have their limits. They cannot in themselves be sources of morals and ethics. This is the realm of laws, the legislations that governments make are the real...
View ArticleInternet: Medium For Communication, Medium For Narrative Control Adapting:...
When free market and regulations fail, when the laws of rights can't properly protect anyone and trust has eroded, we're left only with ourselves. In that scenario, tech is seen as the savior of the...
View ArticleInternet: Medium For Communication, Medium For Narrative Control Adapting:...
We can attempt to patch things, use tools and software as countermeasures, to add laws and regulations, or to let the market decide, but in the end we are at the center of everything. If we are facing...
View ArticleInternet: Medium For Communication, Medium For Narrative Control Conclusion &...
Our mini internet study has come to an end. In this series we've seen the new actors and spaces introduced by the internet, the actors using them, from the new economies, to netizens in between, to...
View ArticleCognitive Confinement In Narrative Prisons
After writing a whole book about internet and narrative control I want to share what I personally do, in my own limited ways, to try not to get stuck in bubbles. The book covers a lot of ground on this...
View ArticleMyopic Experiences and Distant Observers
Is someone that is subjectively experiencing something more knowledgeable than someone who didn't or currently isn't? Are analytical external observers sometimes more adept at understanding what is...
View ArticleNation, Marshmallows, and Scarcity
Every so often we need to regroup and give shape to our scattered ideas, turning them into well-structured paragraphs so that they make sense. From simple observations of events to shower thoughts....
View ArticleCounterculture in the Age of Hyperconnectivity
Life is pretty bland today! Indeed, we're the cozy spectators of homogenization through globalization, pushed by a series of ephemeral trends, one dying after another, and carried by consumer society....
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