Pencil Leads

Pencil Leads

Tenacity

In 2003, Aron Lee Ralston became famous for cutting off part of his right arm after it got stuck in an accident when canyoneering alone through the Bluejohn Canyon. He had a choice that time – to die with an…

Moon Jae-in

I came back to writing faster than I had expected. Not because I have resolved everything, but because I had more or less calmed down and am now attempting to get my life back to normal. I probably will not…

Legalising Drugs

In the late 18th century, the East India Company of the United Kingdom sold opium to China. This resulted in 2 opium wars and a corrupted empire on the brink of collapse, with the result of China being compelled to…

The iPhone

I wrote this article 12 years ago on 15 October 2010 as a very young adult, for the very young adults. Back then my readers were of the same age as me. Today I am re-publishing it here not because…

Lying Flat And Evolution

In 1859, Charles Darwin published a book called ‘On the Origin of Species’. It detailed the Theory of Evolution, of which natural selection is core of the theory. In short, all organisms evolve and fit into the environment in which…

Why I Believe In Meta

In 1971, the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) went operational and served the needs of the US military in the area of communications and file transfer. It was the first intranet system on which the internet was based on. The…

The Free Market

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit. – Milton Friedman In basic economics, students learn about Keynesian theory and monetary theory, which are theories of John Maynard…