Life
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They call it trust. They call it faith. They call it acceptance.
How can you know you’re being exploited if you belong to a system that keeps you from asking deep questions—a system designed to prevent you from knowing you are in one? When naive trust, blind faith, and uncritical acceptance are all that’s expected of you, how do you even begin to see clearly? While catching Read more
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The week I became a snot in the nose (and learned to let go)
When you do things against your will, more likely working on things you never want to be part of, you end up grumbling and muttering under your breath, your mouth conjuring every complaint it can find. And the more you resist, the heavier the weight of the task becomes, even when it’s as easy as Read more
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Letter no. 50
Dear reader from the future, How do you celebrate birthdays? Is buying stuff for gifts still a thing? Maybe after listening to many episodes of The Minimalists and reading The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here, I think about all the stuff I have accumulated over Read more
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Late-night musings #30
We can’t be certain what the future would be for each of us because like in regression analysis, there’s always this there’s always this error term—that unexplained variance, the residual that you can’t quantify beforehand like you do with your variables. It’s built into the model itself, an acknowledgment that not everything fits neatly into Read more
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A frightening degree of corruption
Something shifted in me when I came of age. Probably because my interest in current affairs has grown, the blatant corruption in the Philippines now troubles me beyond belief in a way it never did before. Watching the Katakot-takot na Kurakot (Alarming Corruption) documentary series made greed and human evil all too real to me because they are my experienced Read more
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