Public-Diary

The penguin… Did this go Did it go viral because animals let us talk about ourselves without ego defense? Most viral content today is driven by sparking outrage. In contrast, the penguin felt so calming, it conveys the feeling “I don’t know where I’m going. I just know it’s not there.” Existentialism. Meaning isn’t discovered by following the correct path - it’s created by choosing despite absurdity. For those who built their identity on achieving. For those who reached milestones, and found it left them feeling empty. ...

I have noticed trying to hold myself to the habit of a weekly journal or post gives a different quality to the passing of time. “Modern man sees himself as irreversibly situated in historical time, while archaic man defended himself against time by periodically abolishing it.” — Mircea Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return Things found this week… 1. Czechoslovak Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden 2. Aristotle on how tyrants maintain power ...

A collection of others cool and unique imprints on the world/internet… Cool things found this week: Barcelona, 1906. The Sagrada Família basilica in the background, 24 years into its construction. Midwinter evening by a forest road, Dalarne (1913) Peder Mørk Mønsted (1859–1941) L’Empreinte de Dieu dans le monde quantique by Yves Dupont Finding out Frank Gehry designed a yacht

Trying to write a less cringey post that feels more myself… I think my posting is about to go through the awkward transition most of us should have had as teenagers: putting thoughts out into the world before they’re fully formed, unsure if anyone is reading, finding our ‘voice’, making the necessary grammatical and conceptual mistakes… ideally so my future self doesn’t have to. As a teenager I was far too concerned with what strangers might think to run those experiments in public. So it seems I’m doing it now in my 20s, a little later than planned. Somewhere along the way that curiosity got postponed, but lately I’ve become mildly obsessed with the idea of leaving some kind of trace on the internet. Not a brand, not something polished, just something honest. Just evidence of thinking in progress. If anything coherent emerges from the rambling, that will be a bonus. For now, I’m starting here. And, I’m starting safe, with a collection of others cool and unique imprints on the internet… ...