Eugene Fernandes

Oh Canada, my homeland?

Posted on July 26, 2018

I won’t be able to finish this blog tonight, but I think it was a long one in the making. Here’s the story. I am the child of two immigrants. They come from India. I was born and raised in Canada. Am I Indian, or am I Canadian? What do those terms even mean? I consider myself Canadian through and through. What makes me Indian? Well, my parents are Indian, and my grandparents were Indian, and so were my greatRead More

Blank Slate!

Posted on July 25, 2018

Hey Readers, Today is the first day that I’ve sat down in front of my laptop and thought “what am I going to write about today?” Usually something happens during the day that I need to process or that I need to figure out, or something that’s on my mind, but nothing like that pops into my mind. So instead, today I’ll just tell you how my day went and why it was so fantastic. Today I had a reallyRead More

Ouch!

Posted on July 24, 2018

Pride is a fragile thing, and it’s not confidence. But in small doses, exposing your pride is good for you. This will hurt, but much less than going through the world badly. Today, someone told me that my grammar was wrong. It was a few sentences in my work, but the point was made: I’m not as perfect at grammar as I thought. And this was painful because I had worked on my grammar and studied it, but it stillRead More

The New Media

Posted on July 23, 2018

So I’m thinking of starting my own media company. Entrepreneurs aren’t people who make money – they’re people who solve problems. One problem we have is that big news does not cover events well. When I say big news, I mean publications like the CBC and the New York Times. Their journalists are really derided on twitter for the way they cover people and ideas. In journalism, you have two things to start off with when you first start writing:Read More

Science, Personal History, and Truth.

Posted on July 21, 2018

Wow. I just discovered something that blew my fucking mind open. Well, that’s not exactly true: it really stung, and it’ll probably hurt immensely if I accept it fully. Here’s the idea: you can interpret your history. I was listening to Jordan Peterson on the Patrick Coffin how because he was talking about the self authoring suite, and he made the claim that you can interpret your history, and extract out of that a conclusion about your role in the process.Read More

Thoughts on the Different Types of Dialogue

Posted on July 21, 2018

No action is singular in motivation and reason. If I put the fork in my room into the sink and wash it, there’s a whole bunch of reasons: one is that I want to keep my parents happy, another is because that’s how I’ve been raised, another is because I want to have a clean room, etc. Here’s a better example: I want to turn Canada into a communist utopia. There are many reasons for why. One is because IRead More

Yet Another Ethical Dilemma

Posted on July 19, 2018

I really need to get to the bottom of this ethical marketing thing, because it keeps coming up in my internship. I have a problem. Let’s start with the story, then move on to the problem, and then I’ll try to categorize it with other things I’ve done before, and then I’ll decide what to do. Okay. So. I’m interning at a marketing company, and I’m learning how to market. So this means that we make facebook posts, instagram stories,Read More

Update on my Internship

Posted on July 17, 2018

Hello everyone! Today I’m going to discuss the ethics of my new job. I’m a Hero at HustleCo, and it has been an interesting two weeks because I’ve done things that I would have never thought people got paid for, which is really interesting to me. As a Hero, I am learning how to market, which means creating new websites, landing pages, writing blogs for websites so that the website shows up higher on google results, creating cool designs, allRead More

Thoughts on Sensible Immigration Policy

Posted on July 14, 2018

Let’s say you and some people you know decide to play soccer together. Sounds good! So you get going and you start playing and you end up with a really good game going: it’s been going on for like, 151 years, or 241 years, something like that. Sure, there were times when fights broke out between the players, but in general, the game is successful. The goal of the soccer game is two fold: (1) is you want to haveRead More

A few lessons.

Posted on July 14, 2018

I learned some really important things today. Those who ask questions and state their ignorance are the ones who are truly confident. Those who don’t ask questions when you don’t know something are actually insecure, whereas those who do and know they have gaps in their knowledge are confident. Those who treat you like an idiot when you ask them for help should be…slapped, or rebuked in some way because they have no respect for the process of learning andRead More

Rhythm in Poetry as an Oppressive, Patriarchal Force.

Posted on July 14, 2018

Forgive me for the provocative title; I meant to draw you in, a goal at which I was successful if you’re reading this! So, let’s get started. Read this quote: “The passing of classics from our schools has in fact crippled the larger culture. Here Auden cast his net far and wide. “The people who have really suffered since classical education became ‘undemocratic’ are not the novelists and poets — their natural love of language sees them through — butRead More

Turning descriptors into a space

Posted on July 13, 2018

This is a really cool idea that you can play with, although I have no idea how to really use it to my advantage, or how it’s created, nor have I tested it to see if it’s actually an actual phenomenon When I was applying for my current internship, I imagined what the place looked like in my mind. Where did this picture of the space come from? It came from my imagination. But from where did the inspiration forRead More

Imposter Syndrome

Posted on July 12, 2018

Hello Hello! It’s been two weeks since I first started work at my internship, but to be honest, it feels bizarre. The first thing that feels weird to me is how it doesn’t feel serious. One reason is because my only work experience so far has been to work at Tim Hortons. Thus there’s a sense that if you’re not tired and sore by the end of the day that you haven’t really worked. The second reason why it doesn’tRead More

Writing is Difficult

Posted on July 11, 2018

Taking a break from the series I started yesterday, let me now write about something else. Part of my job is to write blog posts as a marketing tool because it makes you show up higher on Google Search Results, and it also makes your website look more authoritative. But sometimes, you write content about something you’re just not interested in, and so you then extrude it out of you, even though it tires you out and you’re doing somethingRead More

Learning is Painful

Posted on July 10, 2018

This is my first blog in a series of blogs I will publish over the next thirty days. I will post one blog a day starting tonight to open up my ability to create content on demand, and to easily articulate what I’m feeling and thinking. Today I’m writing about speaking about controversial opinions. Before the 21st century, I think people felt free to say whatever they wanted, and didn’t really care about the feelings of people around them. TalkingRead More