Once upon a time I was walking home and suddenly it stroke me: Most of our thoughts are actually feelings, we feel ideas, we just know things. I had felt it all the time. Every moment when some interesting idea had surfaced, what happened in me sharing it did not include internal discussion. It was... Continue Reading →
The possible reasons why I survived my solo trips to shady places
One of the most common comments I get when talking about my solo trips to southern and southwestern Turkey is concerns about my safety. "Were you crazy?" "Did you want to be killed?" "Did you want ISIS to kidnap you?" Similar comments in future tense came before those trips and any other I went hitchhiking... Continue Reading →
Sugar and sick
I used to be a chocoholic until this autumn when I was so broke I couldn't afford any sweets for a whole two months. My eating habits were the same as usual, only with the exception of no sweets [and no shrimps, gawd I love shrimps]. At some point I started to feel numb towards... Continue Reading →
The Hidden Superpowers of Procrastination
If you have some idea of what's going on on the internet, chances are you know very well what the hell is procrastination. Now, if you have found yourself procrastinating often - and maybe you reading this is a part or a result of your procrastination - you might want to hear why it can... Continue Reading →
The Bottleneck Relationships aka How a Macroevolutional Concept Helps People Get Laid
Bring twenty young strangers together for a week and observe their group dynamics. At the end of the week you will see at least one couple emerged. Bring three hundred for a half a year and thirty couples emerged - perhaps five of them will last a lifetime, sixteen have already ended and the other... Continue Reading →
About Self-Improvement and Better Conversations
Dale Carnegie is changing yet an other life. He just collected an other soul through his How to Win Friends & Influence People. Throughout this classical piece of thorough research I couldn't help but think how wrong I have behaved my entire life. Why, just why did I not read it in high school?! It... Continue Reading →
Magic Reality by Edvin Aedma [Estonian]
Despite that it's highly improbable that "Maagiline Reaalsus" will ever be translated, I feel a necessity to express my thoughts about it. Edvin writes short stories about kings, magicians, robots, bugs and several other characters and their adventures. Everything is very absurd and most plots are surprising, yet others don't seem to have a plot. The... Continue Reading →
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