Tag: Facebook

• Socially distant?

  

  On 21st March, last Saturday, the Thai authorities announced a semi-lockdown. Closed malls, no sit-ins at restaurants (takeouts and deliveries only) – you know the drill. All in a “social distancing” effort to flatten the ever-steepening curve of COVID-19 infections in Thailand which, in the space of a week (14th to 21st), increased more than…

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  March 28, 2020

  Uncategorized

  Agoda, COVID-19, Facebook, Family, Friends, Instagram, Relationship, social distancing, social media

• Maria on the Psychology of Writing

  For the writers and creative thinkers out there: The Psychology of Writing and the Cognitive Science of the Perfect Daily Routine. I revisit this regularly to encourage myself in my writing endeavours. Think of the following excerpt as a teaser for Maria’s brilliant article, which you should consider reading in its entirety. A person can think…

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  September 26, 2014

  Personalities, Psychology, Self, Writing

  author, behavioural cue, Brainpickings, Cafe, cognitive, concentration, Creativity, daily routine, desk, discipline, distraction, environment, Facebook, flow, habit, Hemingway, Kellogg, Maria Popova, Music, noise, Psychology, quiet, routine, science, sleep, social media, success, Thought, tolerance, Twitter, Virginia Woolf, work, writer, writer’s block, Writing, youth

• Ten Books

  In one of the latest and more enjoyable Facebook chain-statuses, I was asked which ten books have stayed with or touched me in some ways. Having spent a surprisingly large amount of time reflecting on and spelling out the significance of each book to my life thus far, I thought: why not share them here as well? So…

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  September 9, 2014

  Curiosities, Life, Mind, Philosophy, Reading, Reason

  Black Swan, books, Camus, Catch-22, Etranger, Facebook, Harper Lee, Harry Potter, Hofstadter, Human Conduct, John Hospers, Joseph Heller, Khaled Hosseini, Kinsella, Laura Ingalls Wilder, list, Little House, Millennium Trilogy, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, reading, Sartre, Shopaholic, Stieg Larsson, The Age of Reason, The Stranger, To Kill a Mockingbird

• Another Facebook-inspired Post

  I don’t know what’s up with me these days. I keep getting inspired on Facebook. Which is unfortunate. Why unfortunate? Well, most simply because I try not to be on it too much. And finding inspiration on it kinda gives me a somewhat legitimate reason to let my self-discipline go astray. And it’s already hard…

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  December 7, 2013

  Learning, Life, Mind, Writing

  Boundaries, Dreams, Facebook, Fear, Singing, Writing

• Not Another Post on Politics: Events v.s. Facts

  War does not determine who is right – only who is left. The above quote, often attributed to Bertrand Russell, keeps ringing in my head. I first saw it this morning on a friend’s Facebook page (that’s where everything seems to be these days). And I couldn’t get it out of my head. I’m not…

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  December 1, 2013

  Bangkok, Curiosities, Economics, Life, Mind, Politics, Thailand

  Bangkok, Bertrand Russell, conflict, events, Facebook, facts, government, Immanuel Kant, political, Politics, proof, Protests, reason, red shirts, Suthep Thaugsuban, Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra, Thought, yellow shirts, Yingluck Shinawatra