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29.03.2026 • 3 min read • Memory · Psychology · Materialism
The Estadio Azteca, now Estadio Banorte, is preparing to host games for the upcoming World Cup. Usually, when a stadium gets this old, the owners tear it down. They clear the ground and build a new, modern facility. But that did not happen here. They decided to renovate. They kept the original concrete structure and built the updates within and around it. This choice made me pause. People call the stadium a cathedral because it is the exact place where Pelé and Maradona made history. Tearing down a cathedral feels wrong, but why do we go through the trouble of keeping old structures when starting fresh is often much easier...
Read Entry22.03.2026 • 3 min read • Immigration · Policy · Economics
Governments often manage immigration as a cold calculation to address structural gaps in the national budget. When an individual arrives to a new country on a legal work visa, the state rarely sees them as a new member of the community. Instead, they are treated as a resource to be utilised until the cost of their public requirements outweighs their economic output...
Read Entry15.03.2026 • 8 min read • Psychology · Mistakes · Memory
There is a specific, cold sensation that settles in the pit of the stomach at the exact moment a mistake is realised. It is the sound of a glass shattering on a tiled floor before you have even consciously acknowledged it slipped from your hand. It is the silence that follows a sent email when you notice, too late, the missing attachment or the unintended recipient. In that microscopic sliver of time, the world splits into two: the reality you intended to inhabit, and the one you have just accidentally created...
Read Entry08.03.2026 • 7 min read • Storytelling · Endings · Empathy
I have been thinking about what it feels like to finally reach the end of a long book. It is a strange moment. You have carried this object around with you for days or weeks, and suddenly, the experience is over. The transition from a living world into a finished object is often where the most frustration occurs. We usually talk about stories as if they are gifts, but for the person reading them, a story is actually a commitment of time and empathy. When you pick up a novel, you are trading hours of your life for a promise that the events will eventually lead to a point of truth...
Read Entry01.03.2026 • 7 min read • Football · Strategy · Chaos
It is yet another Sunday evening, and I am sitting in front of the TV watching football matches. Like most fans, I’ve become accustomed to the way the modern game looks. You see these clean, disciplined lines of defenders moving back and forth in perfect synchronicity. They are guarding zones. It’s a beautiful, geometric way to play the sport, and it’s treated as the gold standard...
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