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The Problem With AI Is That We Anthropomorphized It
AI, AR, and VR hype is getting to me. The marketing narrative of ‘this will change everything’ is making me sick. And confused. I have to do something about...
Continue reading...Technology Has Become a Bad Rollercoaster Trip
AI, AR, VR, BCI — Please make this ride stop. I am getting dizzy, aren’t you? You decide to get on a rollercoaster. You are the nauseating and dizzying...
Continue reading...Who Took Our Cassettes?
The Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky in his autobiography expressed that he didn’t like the idea of literature converted to cinema. Cinema should stand alone and be an art form of...
Continue reading...Dealing with Digital and Content Exhaustion
If your professional life involves spending a lot of time with digital devices or content, perhaps you have a thought once in a while about quitting all this nonsense...
Continue reading...Change the Context to Change the Thoughts
You have thought in a lot of different ways. You have held beliefs and values that you cringe at when you think about them today. Or, you have thought...
Continue reading...Professional Balance
It was 2017. I was working for a nonprofit in Nepal when poetry started exploding from me. Although I had been writing stories and rants for a few years...
Continue reading...Defeat the Emptiness by Taking Action
What do you do when you have a feeling of emptiness? No, I am not talking about emptiness in a philosophical sense where you notice that existence is meaningless....
Continue reading...The Philosophy of Content (Media)
My goal with this writing is to define content in the most boring, dull and impractical way possible. I am not talking about the state-of-mind content . I am talking about...
Continue reading...How Deep Should We Be?
The surface has warmth but has no substance. The depth has substance but is cold. Where do we go? I once found Blink 182 complex and Two-and-a-Half-Men intelligent.
Continue reading...Are You Qualified to Live?
Imagine queuing up in front of a large gate in the sky with a trillion other souls that look like Kibosh. You have a token in your left hand...
Continue reading...Let us think
My plan this morning was to open my laptop, close all the tabs, open a new browser, and find a great human thinker/writer of AI. After the discovery, I...
Continue reading...Bringing Music Back into My Life
Here I sit with Iron Maiden’s Powerslave album playing in my ears. The groove, the transparent basslines, the solos, the easy-on-the-ear drums! This is the album I listen to...
Continue reading...Overcoming Anxiety Through Half-Baked Ideas
One of the beauty of writing online is that we can share our half-baked thoughts and feelings in real time, and others can read them and observe the evolution...
Continue reading...Why Don’t I Feel Excitement Anymore?
Every time I think of doing something interesting, I feel okay. That’s all I feel. And then I bring myself to action and begin to feel worse than okay. I...
Continue reading...How Our Pursuit Of “More” Is Making Everything Less Enjoyable
Yesterday, at a small family gathering, there was a family member who had been to Doha, Qatar a few months back. He began by saying that he had a...
Continue reading...Writing for Yourself
In a few minutes, I am visiting a place I have always been uncomfortable visiting. A place that always made me nervous, raised a lot of questions and doubts...
Continue reading...10 Goethe Maxims For Creative Thinkers
German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s poem Courage was largely responsible for my decision to pursue an independent creative career by ignoring my engineering course and my life has never...
Continue reading...Why Don’t I Have Friends?
Published in Ellemeno A guy once sat in this room scared about not having any friends and made a fool of himself in desperation by ringing ‘friends’ who clearly...
Continue reading...Learning Through Experiences
All ways of learning lead to the only way of learning.
Continue reading...How Long Is 21 Days?
Something significant is about to take place in my life in 21 days, and I am both excited and nervous about it. And I am not in control of...
Continue reading...How a Raymond Carver Poem Made Me Rethink Technology’s Role in Our Lives
Scrolling through Raymond Carver’s poetry collection, I came across a poem titled ‘In the Year 2020.’ As a 21st century man filled with fear and confusion, I got excited...
Continue reading...Idea Management: How Do You Manage Your Ideas?
When I wrote Mental Discipline Is A Ceaseless Process last August, I promised myself I wouldn’t allow internal chaos to confuse and destroy me. I said I would always remember that...
Continue reading...The Differences Between Useless Thoughts and Thinking
The only thing I know now is that I know nothing. While it may seem like a style-statement of a 21st century wannabe thinker who has come to write...
Continue reading...Why Do I Drink When There’s Always Guilt The Next Day?
Another family wedding reception party. Another night of heavy drinking and conversations with people I wouldn’t even look into the eye for more than a second on a normal...
Continue reading...Who Are The Priests Of Today?
As I read H.G. Wells’ A Short History Of The World this morning, a particular section grabbed my attention and made me draw correlations with our modern times. In the 12th...
Continue reading...Is There Natural Justice After All?
I just saw a school bully of mine in my dream. He was a powerful person waving a flag at a big event of which I was a mere...
Continue reading...Painful Doubts Are Actually Wisdom
There’s a famous line which goes something like this: When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. I have no idea how universe...
Continue reading...Should we want to be perfect?
In my childhood plays, I imagined (created) a perfect sportsman with a perfect new name, gave him a perfect look and personality and put him into the team I...
Continue reading...Fill your workroom with book smell
Readers are doubtful types of people. Writers even more so. What can we do when we are doubtful whether we should continue our search for more meaning and knowledge...
Continue reading...Medium Post: The other Danger Of Cigarette Smoking (Illumination)
I mean, danger from all tobacco and nicotine addiction I am (was?) a smoker. Been smoking for more than 15 years. And I have heard all this all along:...
Continue reading...Pessimism Isn’t Necessarily Negative, Bad and Wrong.
At times, it can be the perfect view! Last night I watched an Indian movie in which a reputed medical institution deceives couples with fertility issues by making them...
Continue reading...Poem: Things as they are
From the day of my birth till today, I have spent my life saying I don’t have the ability to do the things I want to do in life!...
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Mind Experiments With Mythology
This is not a religious thing, it is psychological. It is about our mind! I am not a religious person. I am not a theist. I am not even...
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Medium Post: Identify The Unhealthy People In Your Life (Published in Fuck Niches)
Know the intention and attitude of all people towards you and act for the benefit of your health.
Continue reading...Poem: Time To Come
I have been in these woods for years now as I have watched you graze and grow. Thousand nights, I have spent creating this spear so vicious… It’s potency...
Continue reading...All Reasoning and No Feeling Makes Life A Dull Thing! (Published in Illumination)
As a kid, I didn’t have access to friends outside school and I wasn’t too friendly with my family members. This meant I had only myself to bond and...
Continue reading...Poem: Stareway to Heaven
A drizzle, Under a metallic roof. Surrounded by, leaves dancing to an unadulterated tune Real ones! Cool breeze…literally Not contaminated by globules of global fetish bulbs…too far away. What...
Continue reading...Poem: Thus Spake Spit
A small light in these dark caves, for now enough to save from extinction. Slowly…igniting and turning into a dragon’s breath I come from there, the thought of where...
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Medium Post: The Poet, The Philosopher, The Producers.
See the metamorphoses from one to another and full circle.
Continue reading...Conquering Event Anticipatory Anxiety
One small victory in this huge war. I have written about anxiety before. But today I want to discuss one of its lethal forms called Anticipatory Anxiety. What is...
Continue reading...The Beginning of the Mobile-Film Journey :Not Me!
This film began the journey of Shot Chitra, a mobile-film project started casually by me and Sanket Dhungel and later joined by Subesh Bhattarai. Our goal with this project...
Continue reading...Medium Post: Four State-of-the-sky Analogy for four of my State-of-mind
A way for me to see what’s going on there.
Continue reading...Sounds From Whenever: Album – Experimental Electronic Sound/Music.
This is an album I created more than eight years ago. My goal with it was to experiment with weird noises and digital plugins to relax and explore my...
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Astra Album – Experimental Electronic Sound/Music. Composed in 2015/16
This is an album I created in 2018. My goal with it was to experiment with static noises, funny voices and digital plugins in order to relax and explore...
Continue reading...Poem: Sky and Clouds
It was a sunny morning and so you planned to bask all day when a lusty cloud came from who knows where and made it dark: Now you shiver...
Continue reading...Medium Post: Why Don’t You Try Self-Entertainment?
We have tried all forms of entertainment. Why not try this too?
Continue reading...Medium Post: The Subtle Differences Between Reading, Listening and Watching
It’s not just about taste. https://fradesh.medium.com/the-subtle-differences-between-reading-listening-and-watching-3b64dd6e5a61
Continue reading...Poem: Me and Them
It’s evening and you sit here with your laptop in your room while the world rushes home closing their desktops at work. You’ve always been this way. You realize....
Continue reading...Poem: Kush Galli
Composed at some point in 2016. This is about an alley near my home named Kush Galli where I frequently went to smoke. Never knew when this passage...
Continue reading...10 Pieces Of Poetry That Broke My Mental Frontiers
Poems: Power of words to those who like to both think and feel. Poetry, if done and read right, can thrust your mind (states, perception, beliefs, etc.) into previously...
Continue reading...Medium Post: Three Important Things I Have Learnt In Last Three Days
See if you will find these important too. https://fradesh.medium.com/three-important-things-i-have-learnt-in-last-three-days-b9982ab2a515
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Ten Haikus — Part 3
When I felt being a politician was worthier than being a writer Each thought in my head more important than Nepal’s: whole Parliament! A tribute to my morning drink...
Continue reading...Ten Haikus — Part 2
You can read or hear them on Medium: https://fradesh.medium.com/ten-haikus-part-2-1e836e80ea01 Filled the room with smoke to pierce through my mind’s fog Next: used words to see! Weakness or Illness? struggled to...
Continue reading...My Weed Experience.
It’s not good. Three of us were having a conversation about weed experience. All three, weed smokers at some point of our lives. One (me) already quit, another a...
Continue reading...Medium Post: Ten Haikus
Go ahead, take a shot! https://fradesh.medium.com/ten-haikus-ff4a745de528
Continue reading...How to Live A Profound And Colorful Life?
The Process of a answering this How To live question Begins With another question: How am I feeling right now? It should always start with this question. It should...
Continue reading...Childhood!
Whatever you go through in your childhood will have a profound impact on the rest of your life. This is because in our lives – like in the world...
Continue reading...As An Online Creator, You Are A Forager
But of which type? To the explorers: Each time you are self-aware of what you are doing for a living, you realize that you are on the lookout for...
Continue reading...Self Improvement: Go For A Thought Drive
A trick for Self-Improvement. Unfasten all the seat-belts that bound you to seats. Wear something comfortable. Stretch your body parts. Take some deep breaths and get ready to go...
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