Teachings of wise men and women that have withstood the passage of time, always seem to recommend reconnecting with nature. …

Can you visualize stand-up comedy? Over the years, visualizing performance art has been attempted in one form or the other. Whether it’s showing the character arcs in a play, or visualizing how characters speak in Shakespeare, performance art has some form of inherent structure, and that structure can be visualized. …

How an interactive grammar of graphics changes everything. Have you spent the hours pulling your hair out trying to make your D3 project more interactive? You’re not alone. …

Some of us pursue wealth to buy our freedom. Some of us pursue the bling. Regardless of our motivation to build wealth, it has moulded our society much more than we would like to admit. Almost everything we enjoy today was made because someone was trying to make some money. …

We often look at others and we look at what’s on the surface. We look at the nice clothes and the nice nails. We look at the interesting Instagram feeds. We look at the twitter followers. None of these are measures of what’s most important in life. The relationships that…

Clothes don’t maketh the man. Or do they? I’m a very different person when I’m wearing formal clothes or a suit. Most types of clothing imposes a certain demeanour on us. Heels make you walk nimbly. A corset is designed to straighten out your body. …

There are so many torturous things in this life. Every small thing has the potential to torture you to some extent. Deciding what to have for breakfast. Deciding what route to take to work. Deciding what clothes to wear. Every single thing can torture you and induce anxiety. If minuscule decisions like these can have such an effect on you, then the bigger ones can be worse. Times like these need a single answer to a single question.

The quality of any interaction depends on the tendencies of those involved to seek and share attention. — Dr. Charles Derber (author of The Pursuit of Attention) You’re out with some friends. You may or may not be a couple of pints in. You’re laughing, teasing and having fun. You…

We all love X but want to fuck Z. Z is like a motorcycle with no one on it. Beautiful. Going nowhere. -Cheryl Strayed Sometimes we choose people who are wrong for us. Sometimes we pick people who turn our lives upside down. We let our carnal instincts take over. The damsels in distress. The mind-numbingly attractive. Tortured by indecision and guilt and lust, we turn towards the gleaming and crystalline. The Z.