Hello intersectional thinkers đ
Greetings from rainy Tokyo âď¸ The first six months flew by! Thank YOU for checking out my Substack musings.
Here are your top 3 favourites:
1/ Confucius say
Thereâs a quiet urban Chinese village tucked away in Shenzhenâs import export district called Dafen.
Between 8,000 farmer-turned-oil painters, the village can wholesale $600M worth of hand-painted copies of art in a year⌠(read more)
Honoured to have this post featured on Write of Passageâs newsletter!
2/ Dream Journal
Traveling is like dreaming.
The worlds look the same, but the everyday experience in the âtravel worldâ is unreal.
So, I tried to journal why it felt like a dream: (read more)
This one generated the most comments in 1H. Seems like weâre all dreaming about travelling.
Where do you want to go next? Leave a comment and let me know.
I want to go to Bhutan next.
3/ How philosophy created the binary code
Claude E. Shannon, the creator of transmitting informations with 0s and 1s, took a philosophy class at the University of michigan to fulfill an arts requirement.
In that class, Shannon learned about how Logician George Boole used 0 to indicate false statements and 1 to indicate true statements (learn more about Boolean algebra here). This way, statements can be solved like math equations⌠(read more)
The last post of 1H was the most read and most liked! Thank you for checking it out :)
With that, we canât put off the next half of the year any longer.
Have a great 2H of 2022!
Vicky
P.S. If you want more âď¸ or less đ of something in this newsletter (e.g. interesctions, paradoxes, visual Zettelkastens, etc.), please comment below or DM me on Twitter!
6 months of inspiring writing! Thank you Vicky đ