Personal writing on travel, identity, and ideas
Most people are terrified AI will replace human thinking, but I watched a man casually advocate for nuclear genocide at my gym in Da Nang and realized we handed over our brains to thought leaders long before the chatbots showed up.
Most of us ask "why are they like this" and stop there. I spent a week actually looking for the answer, and what I found was way less comfortable than "they're just bad people."
I grew up on a postcard-perfect island where nothing ever happened. Then I moved to Bangkok and finally understood what I'd been starving for.
Why high divorce rates are a sign of a healthy economy