Category: English
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Psychological Manipulation-3: Techniques and Common Types
Today’s post will be a long one. I didn’t want to split it into parts, but for easier navigation, I’ve added a table of contents. You can read the whole thing, or just the parts that interest you. We’ve already talked about examples of manipulation before. Now, we’ll dive into the techniques themselves — not…
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Psychological Manipulation-2: Key Techniques
Sometimes I say to myself, “No, these people can’t be that stupid.” With a bit of logic, they’d see that what they believe is nonsense, that what’s being said is lies. It doesn’t work. Worse still, they start teaching engineers engineering, doctors medicine, biologists biology. In the social sciences it’s even worse. History, sociology, psychology…
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Psychological Manipulation Series – Part 1: Introduction
In the “How to Know Yourself” series, we explored how individuals drifting through daily life can transform into those who know what they’re doing and why. We talked about how we lose touch with ourselves amid everyday busyness and how that distance quietly lowers our quality of life. Finally, we looked at how the questions…
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Navigating Depression This Winter: Essential Questions to Ask Yourself
As winter sets in, it’s not just the flu that spreads like a virus—depression does too. The walls start to close in on you, the clouds weigh down on you, going to work feels like a burden, and even the simplest daily tasks begin to exhaust you. Add financial troubles and social relationship issues to…
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ChatGPT in Coding: Insights and Challenges
I started working as a software engineer in April. For years, I had done nothing related to software. As an electronics engineer, software was something on the side that helped me as much as it needed to—or if we think of it as a language, it was something I had just enough of to express…
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The Illusion of Autumn
It paints the world in colors, sets the horizon on fire, and makes us believe we’ve reached the peak of beauty.At least, that’s what we think.But in truth, it’s the slowest and most elegant funeral on earth. The trees aren’t blooming, the leaves aren’t shining.They are slowly fading, disappearing.Just like people.Yet unlike our sorrow, death…
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Why Cleaning is a Trap: The Real Cost of Consumerism
There’s probably no activity I hate more than cleaning.A completely useless waste of time. We already spend our days at work, then sacrifice sleep and health to carve out a bit of free time—and filling that time with cleaning feels like the ultimate human helplessness. And no, I don’t mean “if I don’t do it,…
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From Colonialism to AI: A Historical Shift
Humanity first tasted the benefits of a settled life with the advent of agricultural technologies. Then came technologies developed to protect against natural disasters. Over time, trade was discovered, and transportation technologies multiplied. For centuries, history unfolded under the shadow of war. Curiosity, displays of power, and a certain linear way of thinking kept the…
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Exploring the Impact of Meta Quest 3 on VR Technology
Last week, I added another unnecessary electronic purchase to my collection—I bought a Meta Quest 3. I’ve been talking about disruptive technologies lately, and I think VR is absolutely one of those technologies that will completely change our lives and our perspective on the world. Photo by Jessica Lewis 🦋 thepaintedsquare on Unsplash Even as…
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Democracy in Crisis: Two Polarized Campuses
I guess it’s the same everywhere in the world. People have split into two poles. Even the strongest democracies have been reduced to the level of “protect the ballot boxes.” Participation in democracy is now measured simply by the number of people who vote. One pole is socially conscious, striving to make the world a…
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