Mental illness is on the rise. Care is lagging and based on false premises.
Arto
Nation-level self-harm
On open debate versus the right not to be offended.
We are failing the mentally ill
Why is the healthcare system failing the mentally ill?
Dysrationalia
About intellectual laziness.
Another harmful label
We often use labels void of actionable information. This deflects our focus from real solutions.
What is normal?
What is considered normal depends on the cultural context.
Go figure!
A Brexit paradox.
An immigrant’s advice
I started writing on this post in the aftermath of the riots in Husby near Stockholm in 2013. I thought I’d share some hypotheses about why I never rioted and instead became a rather typical middle class, reasonably well-educated and somewhat boring citizen, with a clean criminal record (bar a Continue Reading
On the useless concepts of race and gender
In my personal battle against irrational thinking I’ve come to think about the categories “race” and “gender” and how they are used to categorize people and to make policy. There is a strong suspicion that Asian-Americans are discriminated against by several top American universities. There will probably soon be a Continue Reading
The future leaves the past behind
Almost five years ago I got very excited when I first stumbled upon Spotify. I wrote that I had seen the future. It’s great that at least the odd prediction actually comes true. Spotify is not the future anymore but very much the present. Some artists resisted at length but Continue Reading