Self-help that matters. Like many other people out there, I went through a period of reading self-help books. Somewhere between five and eight years after I started reading them, I stopped reading them. …

After all, I won’t be here to defend myself, will I? :) Jokes aside, my subscription finishes on the 28th March — 8 days from now. I won’t be able to read anymore, and I think a great many people will be very happy to see the last of me…

From an old pro… — Writers Every now and then I read an article by someone on Medium about the importance of claps. I am told that one clap is an insult, and that one shouldn’t bother to clap if one is only going to give one clap. I’ve read it often enough to want to…

He shrunk to a dragon, and then he took the lives of men. — In earth mythology, a serpent with four legs is a dragon. They got that wrong. A true dragon has six legs, and its face is that of a cat with very, very large fangs. …

Yes, I know. You told me so! —

The practice of silencing the opposition does not sit well with classic liberals. — I have always had a powerful voice. Perhaps it is due to excessive thinking, or perhaps it’s due to the genius that has been said to be mine. …

Average intelligence does not have it. — For the most part, human beings lack the ability to extrapolate what their current choices will bring forth in the future. Some are better at it than others, when it comes to their personal choices. They can, for instance, determine that if they refuse to do their job, they will…

So yesterday I went to the dermatologist… Hi guys, Thank you for bearing with me during a very difficult month. Yesterday, I finally got to see someone about the big ‘growth’ underneath my arm. It turns out that it wasn’t a wart. It was a very big cyst — in…

Why would anyone pay a blogger to write something when ChatGPT is free? — I’ve been reading the articles and comments about ChatGPT on Medium. They’ve been interesting, and there has also been a lot of cognitive dissonance on the topic. For instance, the idea that ‘a writer’s hard work shouldn’t be replaced by technology,’ is rampant. Others dared to suggest that ChatGPT wasn’t…