Unsolicited Rick Picks
Opinions no one asked for, on subjects I fancy at the moment.
Little questions about content
Answers to a few common questions about content creation and consumption.
Experiments in battling a screen addiction
Got troubles with screen time? Here’s how I use Focus Mode, intermittent fasting & other steps to tackle the problem & have digital wellbeing.
The learned anxiety of crossing a road
City dwellers are conditioned to fear crossing the street, & car culture is behind it. But it need not be that way.
The Gravel paths to liberation
A few days ago, the beloved children’s author from Montreal, Élise Gravel, was in the news after a local library removed her books from their public shelves fol ...
Double tagging French sheep and other causes of the revolution
Acts of civil disobedience emerging in our societies, and hopes for great peoples’ movements.
Eating animals
An essay on the dilemma of meat consumption, touching on climate change, ethics, caste, etc., based on the books I’ve recently read.
Cycling in Montreal: The good, the bad, the bumpy
A blog about the things I like and dislike about cycling in Montreal. This writing is like my riding: purely for leisure.
ChatGPT: Writer’s friend or archnemesis?
If you have been on the internet in the past month or so, you will have heard of ChatGPT. Everyone, from Twitter to bosses to LinkedIn to flatmates, seems to be ...
5 years of Intermittent Fasting and how I do it
My multi-year experiment with intermittent fasting or time restricted eating, with notes on the personal changes I’ve observed.