Unsolicited Rick Picks
Opinions no one asked for, on subjects I fancy at the moment.
The learned anxiety of crossing a road
Today, I want to discuss an insight I’ve stumbled upon: Crossing a street, especially a wide road, is fraught with fear. A fear we are conditioned to. Like all ...
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
A couple of nights ago, my flatmate Em and I were discussing the ongoing farmer protests in France when I heard an anecdote about civil disobedience. Em has bee ...
Eating animals
I recently finished reading Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals, a compelling look at meat consumption, the rise and dominance of factory farming, and animal ...
Cycling in Montreal: The good, the bad, the bumpy
As a new arrival to the city and an old hat at hating car culture, I have wanted to write about cycling (and walking) in Montreal. As my captive audience of one ...
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
- Intermittent fasting or time restricted eating, though not a novel concept, is now definitely more commonplace. A lot of people I’ve met have tried or at leas ...
Hostels and the sense of enough
- I have been backpacking in Canada for a couple of months now. While not all of it has been in these institutions, I have rediscovered my love for hostels, and ...
6 Pros and Cons of Working Remotely for an Overseas Company
Remote work, the by-product of the current digital age and more recently the pandemic, often means you work for not only companies in other cities but also ofte ...