Author: Sina Mathema

Growing up in the moderate and pleasant climate that Nepal boasts year-round I never happened upon the term S.A.D (seasonal affective disorder). At eighteen, caught up in the whirlwind of university, newfound freedom and independence the cold, wet and dark winter caught up with me as I found myself sleeping in late and lacking motivation. Initially, I thought all I needed was to find the structure my mother had provided for the first eighteen years of my life, but in retrospect I needed someone to tell me about S.A.D and the practices that help prevent it. For some context, the shortest...

If I boiled down my twenty-five years to twenty-five key takeaways this series is what they would be. The following is a summary of what I hope will be useful lessons you can come back to on days you need to dig deeper and be more.  Now, twenty-five lessons make a lecture so I’ve broken them down into five the-brain-can-digest-this sized chunks as follows;  Chunk 1: How to get sh*t done Chunk 2: Fundamentals to self-development  Chunk 3: Pushing past limits  Chunk 4: Tools to socialisation Chunk 5: Mindset  This article isn’t going anywhere anytime soon so if five is still...

Photographers. A class of digital age artists (amongst the animators, graphic designers, filmmakers and the many others). In today’s digital age fluency in these mediums is becoming a fundamental skill set whether you’re working on a school project or you’re an aspiring photo-journalist. However, with the revolution of the camera-phone developing the skillset required to take a high quality photographs with a digital camera can feel like a chore; the lugging of a 2lb camera around your neck, the fidgety dials, the inter-changeable lenses. All the reasons to avoid it add up. On the other...

If I boiled down my twenty-five years to twenty-five key takeaways this series of articles is what they would be. The following is a summary of what I hope will be useful lessons you can come back to on days you need to dig deeper and be more.  Now, twenty-five is a lecture so I’ve broken it down into five thebraincandigestthis sized chunks as follows;  Chunk 1: How to get sh*t done Chunk 2: Fundamentals to self development  Chunk 3: Pushing past limits  Chunk 4: Tools to socialisation Chunk 5: Mindset  This article isn’t going anywhere anytime...