Author: Vincent

It’s a bit tough today, since waking up. Some days are like this—I skipped dinner last night, blaming a “lack of time,” and that must certainly be affecting my fatigue. It’s also a cloudy morning, and while I can catch glimpses of sunlight in the distance from my balcony, the gray clouds ultimately take over.…

One of the obvious reasons why my way of thinking has evolved and is different is the fact that I don’t live in my birth country. I have now been living in Japan for almost 10 years, after growing up and spending 30 years in Paris. Being of Chinese descent on both sides of my…

Thinking is good, but unfortunately, it doesn’t pay the bills. Unless you go to extremes or simply have the means from the start, you cannot escape this rule: you need money to live. And you need to live in order to think. It’s true that the opposite isn’t necessarily true. But isn’t it because human…

The more people there are, the greater the inertia of society becomes. This seems obvious, but it also explains how religions were able to develop. Every Sunday, my wife and I watch the new episode of the anime Chi, which fictitiously portrays how the heliocentric theory might have emerged at a time when any thought…