A simple thought experiment reveals interesting principles about what we value in nature, life, and the universe itself. — Authored by Richard Sylvan and first published in 1973, the last man argument was originally coined to criticize our anthropocentric relationship with nature. However, with a few extensions and twists, it has the ability to reveal deeper insights about the nature and value of life, consciousness, and the universe itself.

A simple thought experiment reveals hidden truths about the nature of consciousness. — Death is scary. We are naturally fearful of the idea of no longer being. We create rituals and legends to explain what happens to our loved ones who no longer “are”; and we create technology that enables us to delay the fearful destiny that we all share. With the technological…

But not as you think. It had nothing to do with feeling deserving, it was about letting go. Here’s how I did it, and how you can too. — A Brief Story of Rejection and Failure It was mid-October of 2020. I was studying in a private room at the library in my university when I finally got the call I had been expecting for the last few weeks. I glanced over my buzzing phone; the call was coming from Mountain View. My heart rushed. …

And your life is inadvertently going to waste. Caught up in unimportant routines and goals and desires, you have given into the rat race. — I have noticed something about myself in the past few years — perhaps you have too. An insidious change, cropping up under our noses. We may be too caught up “living life” to notice it. But failing to notice it does not make it go away. In years of old…

From Meditations to my skin. A reminder imprinted for life. — “On doing what is in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions. Yes you can — if you do everything as it it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless…

A discourse inspired by Seneca’s Letter 10: On living to oneself. — It is alone that one’s true nature comes out. It is when one is alone that the state of one’s mind and soul surface. Notice how I say “alone”, and not “by oneself”, for one can be by themselves without ever being truly alone. Being by oneself while working, listening…

Read this before you try fasting. Because not everything that is on the internet is necessarily good for you. — How It All Started After what felt like the most chaotic four months in recent history, we collectively started to crawl out of our home cocoons. For months, all we saw were empty streets, chaos in the news, and never-ending anxiety at home. …

How lucky we are, after all, to be alive. — My back hurts from sitting on a bench with no backrest. The aftertaste of ice coffee lingers in my mouth. I’m sitting outside. It is chilly, so I am wearing my favorite neon-green hoodie and a beanie. But I am in the sun, and it feels so damn good. …

Most people grow exposed to opposing views about money — it is either good or bad. But it doesn’t have to be that way. It doesn’t have to be either way. — A Brief Story Of Money and Status I couldn’t believe my eyes when the lady at the front desk swiped my card. How could I be paying so much for something my roommate had been doing for free all through college? …