The good life | Kamiel Choi

Talkshow the Carousel

Here is an idea for a talk show. The host is seated behind a small desk and in front of him, there is a guest sitting in a segment of a giant rotating disc. Only that segment, resembling a pizza slice, is visible to the audience. The segment has sound-proof walls. The first guest is ...

I went to the moon

Corona for nihilists

After we have felt, in our bodies, that we are still worthy even if we create nothing - how would we create? The corona crisis is a special time for nihilists. The clean separation of society in essential and non-essential activities signals that money is not the only dimension of meaning that informs our political ...

I like the sea

Cooperative Maze Game

In these restricted times, I have played around with Scratch, a programming tool for children developed by MIT. After some tinkering I came up with a simple maze game. I decided to make the game cooperative: the players have to share their ammo to defeat the sharks and reach the next level. They have to ...

Talent

Your "talent" is not some magical force you can tap into, it has always been built up over time. You did that. Every talent you have, you have accumulated and that process started when you were conceived, in your mother's womb. "I don't have talent" is never an excuse. It is never too late to start building talent. Make the world your womb. Stay hard.

"What is the purpose of life?" "Mainly gloating over the misfortunes of others" "And you say evil comes from religion, huh?" "...And then there's irony." Christopher Hitchens

The benefits of running – right from the start

I never was much of an athlete. Think of the boy that is laughed at in school and never picked for the soccer team - you get the picture. I started running and even doing 5k, setting my goal at 10k has a markable effect. You don't need to run a marathon in order to ...

In the end, we are all big-brained monkeys with a limited capacity.