If there’s an easy way to describe what parenting life looks like, it would be a line from Barney in How I Met Your Mother. When he saw his newborn baby he said: “You are the love of my life, everything I am and everything I have is yours forever.” Parenting is a lifelong process,...

I have listened to many discussions among my fellow creative workers, surrounding the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). Some claim that it has the potential to replace human creativity. This conversation was sparked by the rising popularity of Dall-e and Chat GPT, two platforms developed by Open AI. Today, AI has clearly become more efficient,...

Reading a book about Stoicism at the end of 2021, I found something that I think is the simplest, most relevant piece of philosophy. More than just a mere thought, it is something that you have to practice. And the first step that you need to do is to understand what to “control”. But the...

We often talk about how brutal haters can be on the internet, but rarely do we touch on ways public figures or anyone deal with them. A recent phenomenon, however, shows that money can sometimes effectively turn haters into allies or fans. The Digital Civility Index (DCI) report from Microsoft in 2020 shows that Indonesian...

It is really not surprising that just days after the new Penal Code was passed at the parliament, the Press Council immediately threatened to challenge it at the Constitutional Court citing threats to democracy, including to press freedom and the freedom of expression. During its long formulation process, the draft bill had already drawn a...

In 1981 a popular song by the Buggles proclaimed that Video killed the Radio Star. The premise was that the new technology of video would supplant radio. The report of radio’sdeath was, however, premature. It continued to thrive worldwide and in Indonesia. Video probably failed to kill off radio, probably because – as explained by...