Dec 9, 2021Rating the rating system and why I’m avoiding numbers.It started with a conversation about a collection of systems. The question at hand was why it was decided that we would rate things out of five, out of ten, out of one hundred and the amount of leeway each gives us, the rater, Five is claustrophobic. Only the staunch…Pop Culture4 min read
Dec 7, 2021Roadkill, and other reasons your day was actually good.On my drive to work I wind my way through a mix of suburban sprawl and winding rural hills, sheep hiding from the harshening sun in clusters and the occasional kangaroo blocking the road to eyeball my car as though I’m interrupting their commute… which I guess I am. The…Personal Development3 min read
Nov 21, 2021A meditation on the passing of my father.Dewy beads of condensation tracked maps across the tips of my fingers as I shifted the grip on a glass of whisky and thought about the ocean of time that was now between us. …Creative Writing2 min read
Nov 11, 2021The perfect t-shirt and the reason I choose a life uniform.In the later years of high school I made some decisions. Questionable ones. Ones that occupy a wooden chest at my mothers house. Slipped into envelopes or tightly bound in clingy plastic, memories that struggle to breathe and I’d rather let suffocate in the darkness. …Fashion4 min read
Nov 9, 2021The early birds gets.. TBDI’ve just set my alarm for five thirty in the morning. I’m not going to the airport, Melbourne is still under restrictions so holidays have been put on hold. I don’t play sports, so this isn’t me off to team training before sunrise. This is me trying to figure out…Personal Development3 min read
Nov 5, 2021This tree is single handedly curing my writers block.I recently had an epiphany. Like most people who live on YouTube and are into tech, or writing or have gone through a minimalism phase or have ever Googled the phrase “why is my brain like this please send help please I think it’s dead, the void, it beckons.. hello?”. …Personal Development3 min read
Nov 3, 20213 games that helped me redefine failure.Failing sucks. Not a revolutionary thought, I know, but true nonetheless. I have been playing video games since Super Mario World on the SNES, and I was too young to realise that Mario games are actually pretty hard. I was more interested in making Yoshi eat everything in his path…Video Games6 min read
Nov 2, 2021Hacking my addictive personality to become a better writer.Hi, my name is Jonty and I’m addicted to TikTok. So much so that yesterday I deleted the app entirely… for the third time. It wasn’t like this with other apps. I would occasionally enter a scroll trance on Instagram for sure, but never to the point of looking at…Pop Culture5 min read