Essays on minimalism, sustainability, health, travel, history, and social issues.
Why Overtourism Is a Capitalist Crisis
A new form of environmental propaganda has quietly gone mainstream, and it isn’t aimed at the industries driving the crisis. It’s aimed at the person who finally saved enough for a vacation. This essay argues that individual guilt is a diversion built by the same system it lets off the hook, and that the real…
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The Age of Intention
Why smartphones won’t be the final form of computing, and what comes after screens, apps, and endless scrolling.
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What Happens When You Stop Looking at Yourself
A few months living out of a van with almost no mirror changed how I see mirrors themselves. Drawing on Fernando Pessoa and, surprisingly, Michael Jackson, this essay asks whether mirrors show us who we are, or who we’re told to become. A look at vanity, self image, and the culture of constant self-checking in…
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How to Read a Rainforest
Trek Taman Negara near Kuala Tahan with the Batek people: jungle survival plants, poison blowpipes, and life inside one of the world’s oldest rainforests.
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The Bomb Craters That Became Bunkers Beneath Cu Chi
I went to Cu Chi expecting tunnels. I left thinking about something much bigger: what happens when people know their environment so intimately that they stop fighting against it and start working with it.
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Backpacking lost its soul
Travel used to demand curiosity, patience and a willingness to get uncomfortable. Now it often demands little more than a passport, a smartphone and enough money to follow someone else’s itinerary. As backpacking became easier and more performative, the barriers that once filtered for genuine curiosity disappeared. What replaced them was a culture of checklists,…
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What Happened to Good Manners?
Good manners aren’t about being proper. They’re about remembering that other people exist. From loud conversations on public transportation to people who cut queues, ignore boundaries or simply can’t be bothered to say thank you, the smallest acts of consideration can make shared spaces much easier to live in.
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How France Became Home
I came to France to study. I never expected it to become my country. After more than a decade of friendships, work, volunteering, family, language and ordinary moments, I’ve realized that belonging has little to do with passports and everything to do with participation.
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The Photograph Has Become the Experience
We used to take photographs to remember our lives. Now, increasingly, we seem to live our lives so we can photograph them. From parents turning their children into props to strangers secretly photographed for entertainment, smartphones have changed not only how we take pictures, but how we see the people and experiences around us. Photography…
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Life in Kuala Lumpur, Mostly Pros and Some Cons
A honest, detailed take on living in Kuala Lumpur in 2026, rent vs food costs, walkability, humidity, public transport, vegan food and why I keep coming back but wouldn’t settle.
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