Category: Meta

  • Relationships as work

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    Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the spaces that people occupy in each other’s lives. Relationships are hard work. This is true in that the most enduring ties are built on daily decisions to maintain them. The metaphor shouldn’t stretch to the point of relationships being toil, the work punishing and desperate, undertaken in…

  • 5.10.20 aesthetics game

    Type your name + aesthetics in the Pinterest search bar and create a personal moodboard. I’d say this came out well for how random it was.

  • status 03 march 2020

    Today is the killer week for the term. Internship and TA duties, 3 report deadlines and a final presentation, two interviews, and who knows what else will crop up. I just need to get out of this alive, and hopefully with enough to replenish my energy. It occurs to me that I’ll need to inform…

  • “There are always other places.”

    In the penultimate episode of the Korean drama Hotel del Luna, there’s a scene where the undying owner of the hotel, Jang Man-wol, looks back on her portraits from the hotel’s different eras. There are no photos of any of her staff then. Koo Chan-sung, the current manager, tells her she should have taken some…

  • Logged writing

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    Lately, there’s been some buzz about reviving the practice of blogging. Warren Ellis has posted about it, as has Chuck Wendig, and a bunch of other people, I’m sure. There seems to be a growing collective awareness of how ephemeral social media can be, and how devastating that can be when these social media platforms…

  • Learning UX design basics

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    Last week, I tuned in to General Assembly’s Intro to UX Design livestream for Asia-Pacific audiences. Technical hiccups aside, it was a good overview of what UX design is and what the work of a UX designer entails. The talk addressed key questions like: What is UX design? What does a UX designer do? How…