I hear the elevator doors open but keep my eyes shut, taking a final inhale. The familiar scent of the eleventh floor assaults my nostrils. After hundreds of visits, one starts to notice traces body odor and cheap coffee buried under mounds of antiseptic. My eyes flash towards the ground…

Kit’s alarm rings 30 seconds before the start of class. Mornings are her kryptonite. Half a minute is just enough time for a prolonged yawn, a vigorous rub of the eyes, and a few scandalous swears. She plops her headset onto her head, stubbornly remaining in bed. “Welcome Kit! Right…

Claude wakes up just as the sun peers over his windowsill. Over the years, his circadian rhythm has aligned perfectly with the Earth’s daily rotations. This morning it takes him a full three and a half minutes to make it into the shower, six times his normal pace. For the…

Returning from a long trip is never easy. Coming home after a month in India was particularly tough. There was the ten hour jet lag, keeping me up at odd hours and turning me into an afternoon zombie. There was the return to the routine, suffocating me with its mundaneness…

As far back as I can remember, my mood has always been seasonal. As the sun fades in the fall, it whisks away my cheerfulness. Every year, like clockwork. The world eventually freezes, and I cool with it, settling into my own emotional hibernation. The winter months are a black…

There’s a mob of existential threats knocking on our door. You’re likely already developing anxiety over some of them. Have a thing for nuclear wars? Another pandemic perhaps? Or maybe you’re more into global warming, artificial superintelligence, biohacking… For many of us, this wave of global crises feels more like…

In the fall of 2020, I started a company. Not because there was a problem I desperately wanted to solve, or because I had some unfair advantage on which to capitalise. I just had the entrepreneurial itch and decided to scratch it. Worst case scenario, it would be a good…

My friend Archy de Berker and I love building things from scratch. At the start of the pandemic, we released an epidemiological model to forecast the spread of COVID-19 depending on people’s adoption of social distancing measures. …