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DIARY ENTRY: Learning
Recently, a (new) friend of mine remarked, “You’re always learning”. I paused. She was right. I AM always learning! I’m somewhat addicted to the process. I’ve never really described what it’s like for me. Dear diary, today, let me try. Learning, for me, is like unwrapping a piece of chocolate from an assorted box. The…
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DIARY ENTRY: A Re-Introduction
We no longer post diary entries online. That’s how blogging started. The good old days! In protest, I’m going to do exactly that, employing my favourite writing technique: stream-of-consciousness. So, first things first. The image. I asked an AI agent to create a hyper-realistic image of me writing a diary entry in my office.…
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AI, CONTENT CREATORS AND ARTISTS
A clear trend is unfolding: people are retreating from sharing authentic stories on social media. Posts, when they appear at all, are meticulously curated, and bloggers have gone silent. Spontaneity and creativity have given way to polished, sanitised content, erasing the rough edges, human errors, and artistic vulnerability that once defined our digital spaces. It…
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OPEN EYE(S)
Let’s do a thought experiment. Only YOU exist. There’s no one else. There’s nothing else. There’s no world, no universe, no time, no matter, nothing. There’s no good, no evil—only you, with absolute power. Even impossibility does not exist. What will you do? I know what I’ll do. I’ll first protect my absolute power before…
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DOCTOR AS PATIENT: SUMMARY
Patients don’t want to be just heard; they want to be understood. Sir William Osler, that oft-quoted great Canadian-British Physician, once said, “It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has.” Another Oslerism goes, “The good physician treats the disease; the great…
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DOCTOR AS PATIENT
There’s nothing new here. Only my perspective. Literature, both professional and lay, is replete with the topic. I’ve even written on it in the past. In this piece, I’ll be a bit more direct, with less satire (I hope). In my annual birthday message, I intimated to my friends and relatives that I sustained multiple…
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SAD MEN DIE
This month has been a roller-coaster ride for me. So far, I’ve had a fistfight with two days, the 13th (Men’s Mental Health Awareness Day) and the 15th (Father’s Day). What led to the fight, you may ask? Well, they started it. They triggered me. Thankfully, my relationship with this month (which is still Men’s…
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OF AGE
I recently left a job where my age was conspicuously made a negative determinant of my compos mentis, both personally and professionally. I abhor ageism in all its forms! I had to leave. What did I learn from my brief stint at the unnamed aforementioned joint? Gentle reader, please hear me out. What follows is…
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DOCTOR: HOW ARE YOU?
How are you? A simple question, right? Well, it turns out this question gets more difficult to answer the older one becomes. Yesteryear, I unwittingly greeted some of my patients with “How are you?” instead of the usual, “How are you feeling today?” I found their responses interesting and decided to do an anodyne social…
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AN AFRICAN ABOVE THE CLOUDS
Why do Africans (particularly African leaders) love flying so much? Is it a demonstration of power, i.e. riding above our problems or being above everyone else? Is it a celebration of superior intellect? Recently, during take-off on a flight from my homeland, a compatriot of mine remarked in Shona, “Akainvhenda chinhu ichi anga asiri kurara“,…
Doses and Dices
Writing for the sake of Writing.
Doses and Dices 