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Category: Colums

Where different types of think pieces, debates and articles exist.

  • Try Hard 30’s – the Manifest

    I’m done thinking that trying isn’t cool. I grew up in an environment where you believed that if you were talented enough, your path would find you, and if it didn’t, that was only because you weren’t good enough. Trying, at anything, was embarrassing and desperate. But I am done

  • From Gladiators to Livestreams: Why We Watch Others Suffer

    Content Warning: This post discusses disturbing content related to online media, including references to death, exploitation, and violence. Reader discretion is advised. “Welcome to the dance of destiny, ladies and gentlemen. Around and around and around we go, and we’re only beginning, folks. Only beginning! On and on and on and on, and when will it…

  • 3 things everyone should be able to do in the kitchen

    In my life one of the worst places you could ever place me would be in the kitchen. I didn’t want to be there and it didn’t want me there. But after moving to a foreign country where you don’t know as many people I have found myself doing what my grandmother always used to…

  • Why Great Thinkers Are Everywhere Today

    By NelleDavid – Sep 1, 2025 – Column Where are all the great thinkers? This is the question that FKA Twigs posed to the audience during a live interview with Resident Advisor. The question went quite viral for all the wrong reasons; it’s been considered slightly tone-deaf and pretentious – maybe because FKA Twigs personally…

  • “What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets, inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?” Plato first muttered these words back in the fourth century BC, and the sentiment still stands. Youth…

  • Hi there and welcome to my blog. I don’t know if I should jump up and down or cringe about beginning this, I don’t know if anyone even read blogs anymore or if podcasts has wiped them out, but I am going to give it my best shot, either as just a personal virtual diary…