modernity Tag Posts Index

The Living Machine: Why the Collaborative Nature of Artificial Intelligence Demands a Public Utility and Data Dividend Framework

Unlike traditional, static technologies that depreciate through physical wear and tear, artificial intelligence is inherently dynamic, appreciating in value and

Beep Beep Beep

Empty vessels make the most noise. Nature abhors a vacuum. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. What goes up must come down. Nothing is new under the sun.

A Case For Being Bad At Things

Some things are worth doing poorly because they aren't meant to be done perfectly, even when we do them to the best of our ability. Think about a handwritten birthday

There's Something In The Air

Is silence some kind of bug we have to immediately patch? There's sometimes this awkward silence that suddenly lands on the atmosphere mid-sentence or close to it

For The Love Of The Void

Not that I've noticed one recently, but I've always wondered what's the thought process behind creators quitting their platforms, more specifically YouTube creators

Half Yawn, Half Laughter

I've heard a lot of things and the ones I remember from the lot are more trivial than non-trivial. That said, I don't know if there's a defined criteria on why certain

The 200-Year Glitch

The Great Parenthesis For 200,000 years, we were hunters, dreamers, and wanderers. For 200 years, we were employees. The Industrial Age was a brief, necessary glitch,

The End of The Bargain

What's the most important skill to possess in the 21st century? Is it a hard or soft skill? In my mind, "most important" connotates towards an end-all-be-all

Tapping Into The Zeitgeist

Let's start with a bit of background as in 1769, Zeitgeist was a term that represented a way of naming the character of an age. For German thinkers like Herder,

IRL > URL

As per definition, I'd define being chronically offline as spending much of one's waking hours not on the internet on an almost consistent basis. The opposite could

Retirement Of Old Selves

Life ever hardly goes back to normal the way before once this said normalness gets disrupted, yet it's almost an inherent human ability to do our level best to try

Meaningful Work

She loves her job, even though it doesn't pay well enough to cover all her basic needs and would rather stay at her present job than find a relatively better-paying

Moving Goalpost

At least for me, working out the math to put 10x the effort to reach an arbitrary standard of success feels increasingly absurd if the baseline keeps shifting and

Being Outside

At least over here, there's been this trend of teens and young adults nonchalantly uttering "we're outside" whenever they're out and about doing outdoor

Mundane Life

Can one spend too much time thinking about thinking? As in, getting lost in second level thoughts based on their first level thoughts? ​I'm thinking of getting a

Square Pegs In A Round Hole

Depending on the timeframe, consistent creative work is a paradox of sorts, at least in how we've been taught to think about it. For example and from the outside

Dialed Up Switch

I think the modem era of internet connectivity was a masterclass in patience. It was a time when access was more of a ritual. As long as it takes to wait for the

Three Modern-ish Dilemmas

There's this new word that I've heard repeatedly as of late that I decided to look into, which is homogeneous. This can be defined with this rather common example

External Motivation

Despite it being an unreliable source of lasting change, motivations that come to us from outside ourselves, e.g praise, rewards, deadlines, or other people's

Glitch In The Matrix

In some ways, the internet personalities that have sprung up over the years, especially the younger ones with their rich lifestyles and immense, unverified claims