The Scent of Despair

If you’ve never watched someone shoot heroin or smoke crack, spend five minutes on East Hastings and you’ll likely see both. Along a few short blocks on Vancouver’s …

Word Therapy

I find it fascinating how much calm and clarity can come from vomiting words on a page. Life has been busy lately, and I haven’t been writing much. …

Scattered

My mind is scattered. I haven’t felt so lost from reality in a long time. A week ago, I felt completely grounded. Everything seemed to be as it …

Misinformation

As a tech enthusiast, I am pro-AI. The advancements in LLMs over the last couple of years are staggering. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are becoming everyday tools. …

Laws

Laws are weird, at least in modern times. The idea of a law was to keep society safe, and to punish those who threaten that safety. It’s a …

Strange

Sometimes people act strange. They aren’t themselves. At times it’s obvious, other times it’s more subtle. But we encounter people all the time who aren’t acting in ways …

CRISPR

This is absolutely world-changing, and I don’t feel that enough people are talking about it. tl/dr: Some Black Mirror-level shit just saved a baby’s life and we’re about …

Empty

I’ve written previously about my dislike of small talk. I can’t stand its waste of time, its squander of opportunity for real conversation. In a world where we’re …

Not Talking About

Fight Club. I recently re-watched this movie after taking a couple of years off. This might sound a bit strange but, for most of my adult life, I …

Distance

I did a thing. Some of it was ego, peer pressure certainly drove me. But some friends and I set a goal last year and yesterday morning we …