It seems brilliant, to me.

Okay, Hi 👋

Welcome to my mind.

I am actually pretty excited to start sharing my thoughts, or at least the abstract versions of what goes on in my mind.

The blog is called "Seems Brilliant," particularly because of this poem`:

My friend sent it to me and said that it reminded her of me. I related instantly. Incomprehensible, inconsistent. Changing personalities with the instant. I feel like I am, just like the stars, oscillating constantly. There is so much that, to me, seems brilliant—not specifically in an intellectual way, but in an interesting, inconceivable sense. That’s why: "Seems Brilliant."

With each post, I’ll explore things that I find brilliant.

I’m known for exploring different things weekly. One day I want to be a chess master, and the next, I want to learn everything there is about publishing a book. One day I want to understand how fungi help trees communicate, and another day, I want to understand how The New Yorker's covers are designed. Am I just curious or do I have an oscillating personality?

I read that people with "obsessive personality" get bored easily and my favorite hobby is to jump from thought to thought. Sometimes, actually at least three times a week, I obsess over something. And I NEED to learn everything there is about this “something.” The problem is, when I do understand everything within my reach, my obsession fades and everything that I learned disappears with it. Most of my new knowledge dies with the obsession itself. An all-or-nothing approach—that is not ideal.

I don’t know if it's because I don’t write down this new knowledge. Which, I know, I should. I trust so much in my subconscious database to save every file that I simply forget that my hard drive is getting overloaded. Or maybe I'm just not sharing with the people who can keep my obsession alive with thought-provoking questions.

So, I hope this blog will serve as a diary. A diary for my frantic thinking and a safe space for my questions that probably have no right or wrong answers. A place where I can debrief, blab, and overshare. And maybe, if I am lucky, a means to find people who are fascinated by the same things that I am and are curious to understand the same fragments of life as me. Enjoy.