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You are the books you read, the films you watch, the music you listen to, the people you meet, the dreams you have, the conversations you engage in. You are what you take from these. You are the sound of the ocean, the breath of fresh air, the brightest light and the darkest corner.

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Embodies the feeling of summertime

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Google is absorbing DeepMind’s health care unit to create an "AI assistant for nurses and doctors"

Google’s healthcare ambitions are shaping up fast

This is quite interesting. So far AI hasn’t had much practical application in the everyday health setting for health practitioners and patients, and there is so much potential for it to improve the healthcare system. From use as a diagnostic tool, as well as providing recommendations and use as a double-checking tool, I believe that there are many improvements that can be made. And Google would be the perfect company to spearhead such an implementation. 

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Sometimes I prefer upbeat/melodic music

Really enjoying this right now - feeling that synth sound

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Loving the James Blake vibes 

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Is this really what you want to be doing? Going into the corporate world?

You know that you really would like to write - you know that you want to make something.

But you need to earn money. You need to learn all these things. Get it done and do it well. Take some time eventually to write for yourself and produce something worth sharing.

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When I was fifteen, I would often stare into the mirror and ask myself if it was possible to find happiness in the future for a queer person like me:

“Why was I made this way?” ”Why do I feel so disconnected from the people around me?” “Will I be accepted for being the way I am?” “Why do I feel so different from everyone else?”

I would spend hours and hours ruminating and imagining life as anyone but me. 

It’s now almost twelve years later. I still have many flaws. But things have changed so much since then and the experiences in my life have given me hope for what’s ahead. And for that I am grateful. 

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Starchild & The New Romantic - Can I Come Over

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‘Puttin’ it on the line, I’m choosing you every night’

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“We have a seemingly bottomless capacity for credulity. Or as one psychologist put it, “Gullibility may be deeply engrained in the human repertoire.” For our minds are built for stories. We crave them, and, when there aren’t ready ones available, we create them. Stories about our origins. Our purpose. The reasons the world is the way it is. Human beings don’t like to exist in a state of uncertainty or ambiguity. When something doesn’t make sense, we want to supply the missing link. When we don’t understand what or why or how something happened, we want to find the explanation. And a confidence artist is only too happy to comply - and the well-crafted narrative his absolute forte.” 

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Being gay is like playing a video game on a higher difficulty - you need to do research and have a better grasp of what buttons to press in order to succeed. There are more obstacles to overcome but in the end it's all worth it. 

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Elements of adventure and mystery

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A real gem indeed. This song somehow manages to give me feelings of melancholy and hope at the same time. It evokes feelings of driving on the motorway late at night, wondering if the home you are driving back to is the same one that you left. 

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Poetry, vogueing and music intertwined as one 

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Product frustration

Frustration with medical treatment and supplements. People are heavily influenced by advertising to believe a certain product is effective whereas in reality it has little to no actual evidence to prove it does anything. So we end up with people hearing about the product and wanting to try it and then going to the pharmacy or health shop for advice and the opinion from the salesperson about the product (who has an incentive in selling the product so will say whatever it takes for the person to buy the product) and will stupidly end up buying basically snake oil.

And because of the placebo effect, a fraction of the time the product actually work for them. But because of this, we end up with this scenario where there are tons of product out there on the market that do nothing and have this incredible amount of advertising supporting them and brainwashing the people.

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One of my favourite sci-fi authors, Ken Liu. Amazing guy!

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Ryuichi Sakamoto - Bibo no Aozora

Makes you think. 

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Fun fact: neurons only make up around 10% of our brain cells. The rest of the cells are glial cells, which support and protect the neurons so that they can work and grow.