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I am not a native English speaker. While I consider myself quite fluent in English, I lack the nuances that only a native speaker can have. My knowledge comes from years of studying and absorbing content in English. I was always taught to use capital letters at the beginning of a sentence and in the names of places and people. However, along the...

There is a lot of talk and writing in the blogs I read about the horrifying reality of social media and the numbness of infinite scrolling. People, rightfully, want to be in charge of the content they consume and not be the product along the way, and in times like these, I cannot agree more. So people quit Twitter, join Mastodon, quit Instagram,...

If something costs $1000 and I use it once, it costs $1000 per use. If something costs $1000 and I use it 1000 times, it costs $1 per use. This isn’t a justification for buying expensive things—it’s just how I try to evaluate buying things that I want and believe will serve me well. Whether they’re practical (apps I use or services I’m subscribed...

You eat different foods throughout your life. As a child, you eat whatever your parents prepare for you. As you grow older, you might start cooking for yourself, building your own collection of recipes. Each recipe becomes connected to a specific time in your life. It’s similar to how certain smells can bring back memories from your past. Here’s...

Ever since the rise of AI—specifically its use for artistic purposes, like creating images that look like the recent work of your favorite artist or writing rhyming poems to entertain your friends—I’ve been hearing a wide range of emotions about it. As I see it, the spectrum of reactions seems to lie between two extremes, with people falling at...