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This week I came across the exact same concept expressed by a Buddhist and a Christian thinker, which was startling enough to seem worth...

“Quirky facts” strip out the historical context and are often kinda condescending and racist

Hey are you afraid of the unknown? You will hear, from very intelligent people, that humans generally are. It's a myth.

“Chronos” is measured and counted, while “kairos” is lived and experienced.

How to salvage awkward social situations by understanding conversation styles

Backchannel is a type of speech that’s all about the function, not the content. It’s the mm-hmms, yeahs, right of courses.

Australian snakes have killed 35 people in the last year. The common krait has killed 5000 people in Sri Lanka alone.

Old-school manuals have lists of all the towns you might visit, magical items you might acquire, stats you could level up in, backstories...

"I’ve become very attuned to the sound of bird-song, the wind, water running through the pipes, identifying unseen monks by their footsteps"

"The survivors are the bin animals: the ones who can extract resources from our waste products"

Originally published in Das Superpaper in July 2013 “How can you treat a police officer seriously when he is asking you: Why did you...