TechHermit
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Driven by critical thought and curiosity, I write non-fiction on tech, neurodivergence, and modern systems. Influenced by Twain, Poe, and Lovecraft, I aim to inform, challenge ideas, and occasionally explore fiction when inspiration strikes
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The Gamer Scapegoat. Content Warning.
Introduction There's a pattern we don't talk about nearly enough. Whenever something goes wrong with kids, teenagers, or even young adults — be it violence, gambling, social withdrawal, poor academic performance, or rising mental health concerns — there's a familiar name that gets dragged into the headlines: video games.
By TechHermit6 months ago in Humans
Left on Read, Left in Ruins: The Social Toll of Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
The Message That Lingers It usually starts with a message that seems thoughtful enough: "Hey! How have you been?" There's a flicker of something warm in your chest. Maybe surprise. Maybe hope. Maybe a quiet kind of excitement that someone thought of you after so long. You pause whatever you're doing, take the time to respond — kindly, carefully, openly. You ask them how they are, maybe even suggest catching up.
By TechHermit7 months ago in Psyche
Pseudointellectuals in the Wild: A Case Study in Comment Section Science
Welcome to the Digital Jungle The internet was meant to democratise knowledge. Instead, it often amplifies the loudest voices regardless of how little they actually know. Nowhere is this more evident than in the comment sections of popular science pages, where every mildly technical post becomes a magnet for misunderstood terminology, misplaced confidence, and the phenomenon known as the Dunning-Kruger effect in full bloom.
By TechHermit7 months ago in Education
The Lesser Ones Remember. Content Warning.
When the World Blinked The road hummed like a tuning fork beneath the tyres — constant, familiar, deceptively ordinary. He'd always hated that feeling: ordinariness. A trap. He used to say that if you listen closely, silence isn't empty — it's hiding something.
By TechHermit7 months ago in Fiction
On the Frequencies Forbidden
The Tower That Reached Too Far He stood beneath the iron skeleton of Wardenclyffe Tower like a prophet waiting for lightning. The sky above Shoreham, New York, was heavy with the weight of its own potential — thick clouds swelled with summer heat, as if even nature was holding its breath for something unimaginable.
By TechHermit7 months ago in History
Why Group Assignments Aren’t Teamwork—They’re Emotional Roulette
Group assignments are framed as exercises in collaboration, communication, and professional development. But for anyone who's ever been stuck doing all the work while teammates coast, they often feel like emotional roulette. You spin the wheel at the start of semester and hope for competent, engaged peers—only to end up ghosted in a shared document full of placeholder text. What's billed as a simulation of the "real world" ends up reinforcing the worst parts of it: uneven workload, misaligned values, and silence from the people who benefit most from your effort.
By TechHermit7 months ago in Education
Friendship After 40: Now With 80% More Disappointment
They say adulthood is where friendships go to die, but no one warns you how slow and quiet it is. One unanswered message. One half-hearted "let's catch up". One too many plans that get postponed until they just vanish. Its's not dramatic—it's just a slow unravelling until you realise you're the one still holding the thread.
By TechHermit7 months ago in Humans
How Games Taught Me More About Strategy Than School Ever Did
I’ve spent countless hours buried in textbooks, diagrams, and lecture slides — but some of the most important lessons I’ve ever learned about planning, adaptation, and strategic thinking didn’t come from a classroom. They came from games.
By TechHermit8 months ago in Humans
The Case for an AI Government: Why I’d Rather Be Ruled by Code
I know how it sounds — like the opening to a dystopian novel, or the setup for a Black Mirror episode. But when I say I’d rather be ruled by code than by people, I mean it. Not because I trust machines blindly, but because I’ve seen what happens when fallible humans are given unchecked power. Emotion, ego, corruption, short-term thinking — it’s baked into every layer of governance.
By TechHermit8 months ago in Futurism
Why My Brain Doesn’t Work Like Yours — and That’s an Advantage
What Neurodivergence Actually Means (and What It Doesn’t) I’ve always felt out of sync — like the rest of the world runs on one operating system while I’m coded in something completely different. I’m autistic, I have ADHD, and I live with a frontal lobe brain injury. For a long time, that combination made life difficult — school, social situations, even day-to-day tasks felt harder than they should (and most still do).
By TechHermit8 months ago in Humans
