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Things can always be worse
If things can always be worse, then things are never too far gone to be worth saving. You are never too far gone to be worth saving.
Tuesday December 22 2020 -
The Second Kingdom
Time in a hospital is contained in an event horizon of its own dimension. It warps in strange ways that can’t be explained by gravity.
Friday July 31 2020
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Where you’re from
On memory, and physical Place
Tuesday December 31 2019
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I am afraid of becoming a writer
On reality, culture, and simulation.
Monday September 30 2019
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We stopped looking at the stars
Ten years ago, I was determined to become a scientist. It seems like such a luxury now.
Tuesday August 6 2019
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On Fanfiction, and Reading
The year 2000 was a time of beginnings.
Monday July 1 2019
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Hope for the cynic
Cynicism is the dream killer. Cynicism stops progress in its tracks. Cynicism denies us a better world.
Sunday May 26 2019
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On burnout (and bouncing back)
What do we owe to ourselves?
Monday May 20 2019
Words for Bridget Williams Books
Shouting Zeros and Ones
Chapters 9 & 10
“This vital book is a call to action: to reduce online harm, to protect the integrity of our digital lives and to uphold democratic participation and inclusion.”
Words for Kill Your Darlings
Roads
On the road, I feel weightless and unbound – a citizen of everywhere and nowhere.
There’s a certain part of State Highway 16, heading into Auckland from Te Atatū Peninsula, where the Whau River parts the land on each side of the road. For a second it feels like you are skidding along the water, everything around you low and flat. At night time, the land-locked streetlights around you disappear and the stars above you shine a little brighter, as if the water has opened up and swallowed the earth. You are surrounded by smoothness on all sides – sometimes blue, sometimes grey, sometimes black – and for a brief moment there is nothing else.