Of Horizons

In order to understand healthy emotional responsibility, I've come to adopt the attitude of treating one's own emotions & the emotions of…

I used to despise coming to the Karoo: a semi-arid dessert in the middle of South Africa. It is timeless, vast, dry, empty & most…

One of my consistent overarching passions is learning to tell stories. I foresee it being an endlessly satisfying pursuit. Telling stories…

I somehow managed to kill a succulent in the worst drought Cape Town has seen in 100 years. It was a gift. Excited about it blossoming, I…

In the past year and a half, I’ve burnt out twice. In December 2016, just as holidays started, I experienced exhaustion for 4 days…

If you are anything like me, your music production folder looks something like the picture below. An endless list of half-baked melodies…

Where we ought to be is not always where we’d thought we’ll be. There’s always more to see …and thus thoughts are spent inconsiderately.

On my visit to New York, I met up with Jared, a musician I first met at Midem in 2015, talking about blockchains and its potential uses in…

The curtains are down. The apartment is empty. I’m lying under the cupboard in the dark corner where the washing machine used to be.

If you are like me, you always have a cloud of existential dread hovering over you. For some it manifests in depressive nihilism, but I’ve…

If someone asked me what the last Internet service is I will be willing give up, it will be Twitter, and has been my answer for the past…

Call me crazy, but I feel DJ Snake’s 2014 classic “Turn Down For What” is one of the most interesting & best pop hits in recent years.

I just watched Black Mirror s03e01… and so much of it resonated with me. I won’t spoil much, but its core premise is that if we extrapolate…

I’ve written at least 4 or 5 extensive drafts on this topic in the past year. Home. What & where is home? I never quite know how to fully…

Our view of the world & its things are very much primed based on the mental models we grew up with (and still maintain). One such example…

I haven’t seen you in 3 years. It doesn’t feel that long. After it didn’t work out, I still kept seeing your face in crowds for quite a…

“Shit’s not gonna slow down. It’s going to get very weird.”

It is Saturday afternoon. Aeons of Karoo dust have the replaced the layers of the default world that have been shed: people, thoughts about…

In 2014, I decided to do an experiment. Inspired by other similar videos, I took a second of video of each day. In chronological order…

When you suddenly experience jarring moments of reality, your brain is released from its automation, and all manners of neurons start…