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Meet Zeke. On the outside, Zeke looks just like you and me. In fact, he’s a pretty good-looking guy. Physiologically and mentally, he is just like everyone else. He has a brain (duh!), eyes, nose, hands, and everything else. He is also wired like everyone else - when he touches something hot, he pulls back and shouts. When he watches a horror movie, he screams at all the jump scares. When given a set of inputs, he gives all the right outputs. One time, Zeke went through a tou

As all good stories go, it started with me on my toilet (ever since I started drinking Kombucha , my bowels have been moving more regularly than me). Before I knew it, I was pants down, sitting, scrolling through Instagram. This had become my ritual. Even after the deed had been done, I was still on my phone. On this particular session, however, the dots began to connect in my mind: what if instead of pulling out my phone every time I took a shit, I read a few pages of a book

In a previous article , I described how Intuition is the “gut feeling” we get in some situations. I also explored Intuition’s opposite counterpart – what I called Careful Consideration . While Intuition comes at us quickly and naturally, Careful Consideration requires us to slow down and think about all the facts available to us. Turns out, Intuition, when used in the right circumstances is a very useful tool in decision-making and problem-solving. Experts in their field ofte

Part of my job scope as a chemical engineer involves travelling ( I know, what a foreign concept these days! ) to various refineries, where I interview plant operators on how they operate the plant safely. The thing that always strikes me during our interactions is how well they know the operation of the plant. For example, they know almost instantly the impact of any one variable change on the rest of the plant. And they know this faster than an engineer with their complex e

31st August 2021 Merdeka this time around doesn’t seem to invoke any spirit of patriotism. Looking around, I suspect many in the city share the same sentiment. The national political unfolding has been a great disappointment to many. From the time our duly elected government lost Putrajaya in March last year till now, a cloud of depression has been hanging over the nation. What more with the Covid-19 related deaths and the imbecile handling of the SOPs adding to the sense

I love watching the Olympics. Watching these athletes do what they do best is truly inspiring. I am tempted myself to wonder if I would have been able to compete in the Olympics had I started young enough, worked hard enough. Then I remember that I do not possess the kind of natural talent these athletes do. Instead, I ask myself what I believe to be a parallel question: If I put in the same amount of effort as those athletes competing at the Olympics, can I achieve the same