Void

I live with a quiet discomfort. It is not a bother most of the time, for I am good at pretending it is not there. I hide it with layers of casual denial and mental gymnastics. But it is there. It will never not be there. And it is impossible

Repetitive Strain Injury. Fractal brokenness.

My wrist mildly hurt, and had a small bump on it, so I thought I'd get it checked out. Easy, I thought. I'll go to Manipal, one of the biggest, most well-equipped hospital chains around. I got the app to book an appointment. One of the

The CON mindset

Like any good pretentious psychologist, let me add a label to generalize a phenomenon that I commonly witness around me. It's called the Career-Or-Nothing mindset, or the CON mindset, which is best said while swirling a glass of fancy wine. It’s fairly common among young people in

0.1 + 0.2 is not 0.3 and other ways to make money disappear amidst a nuclear fallout

Yeah, I know this year has been terrible. Maybe the only silver lining is that you don’t have to worry about the pandemic anymore with the nuclear winter above and all. But you still gotta eat and resources in this underground bunker are scarce. Luckily you won the contract