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Categories: Articles, pop culture, sam watches things, thoughts | Comments Off on Silicon Valley, ethics, success, and happy failings

Is success equivalent to happiness? How does someone successful looks like? What happens after you succeed? Success is probably one of those concepts that have a personal meaning: what I think of it might differ from what you think because each person have different goals and aspirations. The perspective can also be influenced according to […]

Categories: Articles, pop culture, sam listens things, thoughts | Comments Off on Women’s desire, Chris, and Fleabag again

This week I have been listening non stop to Chris from Christine and the Queens. I got intrigued by her lyrics and her gender non-conforming style, which made me think of the increasing representation of women beyond the clichés and stereotypes in pop culture. What is to be a man or a woman in contemporary […]

Categories: Articles, pop culture, sam watches things, thoughts | Comments Off on Midsommar, vulnerability, and the cult of romantic love

In 2019 I had a “summer love”. I don’t know what we were, but it helped me. It helped me to understand how relationships are different and getting closer to answering the question of “what do I want”. After three months kind-of-together, we decided to end the whatever-we-had. But I think primarily it was her […]

Categories: Articles, pop culture, sam watches things, thoughts | Comments Off on Fleabag, admiring, and inspiring

Fleabag was one of the shows I first watched by myself. That means on my own, because I used to share the thing of watching series with my partner. This time it was 2016 and I was on my own, in another country, living my new student life. I thought the story was finished. But […]