“How can you send me over there with James! James?! Really?” She turned her palms upwards. “There are so many people in the office, Harry. Look around..” The woman turned back, presenting the people outside the room, circulating her wrists, as if revealing a magical object. Woman: “This guy cannot handle his own shoelaces, let alone a big case like…
Author: Philip Baker
The Street View Driver
The little snap would come up like a little bell. Every 5 seconds it would hit invariably with the accuracy of a high-level algorithmic function, developed after months and months of manufacturing, down in the tech laboratories. It would resemble the beating of a heart, pumping life to the mechanism underlying the car. The «swirling snapper» was its name among…
The Black Whale Cat
City noise had dissolved after the rainstorm. The burst had settled down, transposed into harmony, as all extreme outbreaks bring in the end. The soil was still wet and soggy and the sun shying away, stubbornly refusing to show up. All movement seemed paused and for a little bit, it felt like a deep stillness had taken over. In the…
Dealing With The ‘What If’ Pandemic
In the short story ‘Exhalation’ by Ted Chiang, a new Prism technology makes its appearance that allows reality to diverge through the use of quantum mechanics. From the moment the device is activated, time deviates and the present is split into 2 parallel versions that coexist at a different time-space continuum. The 2 realities progress separately as if it was the…
A Word For Marlon Brando
Many people assume that progressing in a craft or a hobby is about the thing you are doing per se. But that is nothing but a mere distraction. A means to an end that depicts how further ahead you can get as a person. It wouldn’t be hard to imagine that whatever level you reach in one thing you could…
What Nike Got Right to Become a Giant
By the time Nike came up with the ‘Just do it’ slogan, they managed to expand their share of the pie all over North America, achieving a 43% cut. The shoe dynasty dominated the scene throughout the 70s and 80s and overcame many hurdles before it establishes itself as one of the top players in the field. As of now,…
The Dark Side of Perfectionism
“When Tiger Woods plays, the market rises.” people used to say. There was a period that one single golf player could actually impact the world to such a degree, that he could drive the stocks up in the market just with his performance. The effect was especially evident at the start of the week, right after the Sunday’s games that…
Why We Root For The Underdog
There is a certain tendency people share but goes unnoticeable most of the time. People root for the underdogs. As much as we may like winners and high achievers and no matter how passionately we avoid loss and being associated with it at any cost, it so happens that from time to time we find ourselves rooting for the little…
The Phycological Basis For Our Political Standings
Inmy teenage year was a rebel. I would revolt on any idea taking away from the people’s freedom, or leading nations to close up to each other. I would throw up in front of capitalistic exploitations and despise their imperialism with a black bandanna and a firing Molotov behind my back. A fired-up spirit in an explosive mix of emotional…
Why It Is So Hard To Accept Other’s People Weight Loss
It was only recently that new photos of Adele were revealed, depicting her radical body transformation. She had gone from a chubby little shy girl, with a voice of an angel and the unfortunate appearance of an anti-star, to a model-like image of a bitch femme fatale, that her only intention is to scold everyone around her every time she…