Brennan's Old Blog

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. -Jack Layton

 

The Hard Reset

For a moment, imagine if — for whatever reason — everything you’ve worked on up to this point, whether professionally or personally, in your life suddenly disappeared. Would you be upset? Would you know where to *begin again*? Of course, the reasonable answer to...

The Importance of Analogue

The Art of Writing Very Badly Since I was young, I have had motor dysgraphia, which can be described as a deficiency of writing by hand. It is currently classified as a learning disability, and commonly associated with speech impairment (which...

Jumping Into Jekyll

When creating a website from scratch, there are two modes of thinking: the design (or rather, purpose) and the technicality (or rather, how to achieve that purpose). I’ve written before about the importance of having a website of your own--specifically...

Quantifying Happiness

Note: This was originally written February 26th, 2015. Pulled from the archives. In mathematics and science, quantification is the act of counting and measuring that maps human sense observations and experiences into some kind of set of numbers. Quantification, in...