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Welcome to the site of a wandering mind.

I can't know how this will turn out, but I imagine I will be writing about some combination of things related to science, philosophy, roguelikes, and whatever else my mind has wandered to recently.

Posts

• The state of South Africa, 28ish years post-apartheid - July 30, 2022
  A personal take on what went wrong - feel free to skip this if you've read Animal Farm
• Book review - Civilization and Its Discontents - May 22, 2022
  A somewhat disorganised review of a classic, but also somewhat disorganised, book about psychoanalysis.
• On being mentally unwell - part 2 - February 2, 2022
  A disjointed post briefly touching upon different topics that are thematically linked.
• On being mentally unwell - part 1 - February 2, 2022
  Where I write about anxiety, depression, and mental illness in general. Includes a healthy dose of speculation and several analogies, which some may find misleading.
• Meta post - update - February 2, 2022
  Update - RSS feed added.
• In praise of apathy - November 20, 2021
  My first foray into satire, which will doubtless be read by someone as an endorsement of the views I express herein, instead of what I actually intend, which is not that.
• Book review - The Conquest of Bread - October 30, 2021
  An overly analytical book review of a classic of anarchic thought, with some commentary that is not strictly necessary and undoubtedly insufficiently informed.
• On the difficulty of finding meaning in work - June 13, 2021
  Where I try to make sense of how I feel about work, after a long digression into apparently unrelated things, and then come out as basically being fed up.
• Hello world - May 6, 2021
  My first post - what is this blog for?