Are you located inside your body?
Even though the concept of “I” emerges from the brain, some psychological discoveries suggest the brain creates a simulation of what it processes and also …
Nunchi (눈치): A Silent skill of reading the room
I first learned the concept of nunchi in a Korean business class. It was introduced as a core Korean business skill of understanding a situation …
Music, Faces, & Imagination make no sense
If you randomly talk with people and ask them absurd non-personal questions about their thoughts, you’d quickly realize that the most common human experiences are …
Why Your Empathy is Dying
Before I compiled concrete reasons why our Empathy levels drop, my instinct said, “Yeah, of course it’ll drop, empathy takes effort, and we don’t like …
Why even the smartest believe misinformation
Over 72% people are exposed to misinformation at least once a month on social media, according to this detailed list of statistics[1]. If you think …
Why you are consistently Unhappy
In the absence of an ongoing life-changing trauma or circumstance, such as death or being a victim of a crime or personal/financial crisis, if most …
Why split-screen ASMR Reels are so engaging
I watch these shorts on YT with some science being explained, and some Minecraft dude is jumping over these blocks hanging in the sky, and …
The Value of Productivity will be its Beauty
What is the worth of a particular product, deliverable, or skill? The answer will soon depend a lot on the “beauty” inside a product & …
Why we need Wabi-Sabi in a post-AI world
Wabi-sabi (侘び寂び) is a Japanese concept of accepting beauty in imperfection. These imperfections are very human in nature – rough edges, clumsiness, asymmetry, unpolished finishing, etc. …
You’ve been Thinking with your Body
I will introduce 5 psychological discoveries about how elegantly our body is connected to the mind. Our special brand of cognition (thinking and thinking processes) …
We are in The Speed Economy… Now What?
Will you be happy if your food delivery took just one minute? Not because it was cooked faster with pre-processed ingredients, but because future technology …
Do students have space to think?
If you wish to understand something, you must first repeat it. This article is a short explanation of how and when students of a new …
BrainROT, REELationships, and The DM Verse
Think of social media as making soup. Most users are stirring the pot. Some users are adding ingredients. The pot stirrers effectively keep social media …
There is space between senses & thoughts, which changes perspectives… a lot
First, there is what we observe and do – the sensory stuff. Then, there is a perception of what we sense in our heads. Holding …
HOW Ideas come alive: Decompose & Recompose
How does the brain create ideas??? – Music, text, visual design, reels, adverts, dance, etc.? I’ve consolidated multiple processes into one model. Let’s also dissect …
A Thrifty Brain gave us Multi-tasking Abilities
Unlike a computer, which would recruit multiple “cores” to multitask, the brain has to use a pretty sophisticated workaround to multi-task. And it all comes …