Blog Posts

The Art of Being Alone

Essays, Life and Philosophy | 01 November 2025

My life choices that I don’t fully regret are: 1) I didn’t rush into relationships, 2) I don’t have many luxuries, and 3) I’m comfortable with being on my own. Many may see this 39-year-old man as a sad case of loserdom, and I don’t fully deny that. I’m fortunate these days for having few problems to stress about, remaining physically healthy, and steadily improving my mental health. While it’s not a life most would want or care for, it affords me the focus on what I value, which is all the reward I need. Very few loners are as lucky. (more…)

They All Peddle Slop

by: Sonny Go

Artificial Intelligence, Opinion, Philippines, Politics, USA | 16 October 2025

It has been over a month since I wrote about the death of Charlie Kirk, and I’ve been able to think more about what that event really did in the big picture. I compared him to other figures, including those here in the Philippines, and thought of what it all really meant in the grand scheme of things. It was both significant and irrelevant at the same time. It should’ve been more obvious from the start that just like many popular social commentators, all he peddled was slop. (more…)

An Ode to the Hitman from Manchester

by: Sonny Go

Boxing, Features | 08 October 2025

Ricky Hatton was my favorite active boxer back in the 2000s when I first started watching boxing closely. I followed his career, from his early fights, when he upset Kostya Tszyu, shut Jose Luis Castillo’s body down, to even his big losses to Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. Win or lose, I always rooted for Ricky, even if it hurt towards the end. A big part of me becoming a boxing fan was watching his fights and being enamored by his style of going to the body with relentless pressure, as well as his humility even at the peak of his powers. He also struggled with his mental health, and his honesty about it was helpful. (more…)

You Have Too Many Tabs Open

by: Sonny Go

Guides, Internet, Productivity | 02 October 2025

I have a chronic illness called “I keep too many browser tabs open”-itis. My RAM is bloated with tabs full of YouTube, random articles, X posts, and freaky-ahh porn. Every month or so, I would then send those tabs to OneTab to save them, only to never touch them again. I keep them open since I don’t want to miss out on anything, but I end up not being able to keep up since I’m only a man in my late 30s with all the curiosity, yet not as much of the boundless energy I used to have in my 20s. This madness has to stop. (more…)

Regurgitating the Black Pill

by: Sonny Go

Essays, Life and Philosophy | 01 October 2025

Since I added a philosophy category to this blog, I always wanted to tackle this topic. I’ve always been immersed in the connection between pessimism and nihilism and how it leads to ideas like antinatalism and extinctionism. Thankfully, I like learning new things too much to want to exit Planet Earth prematurely. With this piece, I actively purged myself of that desire to no longer be by looking at my nihilism dead in the eye and making it blink first. (more…)

Empathy is Not Toxic

by: Sonny Go

Current Events, Essays, Life and Philosophy, News, Politics, USA | 12 September 2025

As a lot of people like to say these days, ‘free speech’ does not mean ‘free from consequences’. However, I don’t think getting killed should be one of those consequences. While I’m of the opinion that these people who like to challenge their detractors to debates are doing it more as a performance and less as serious discourse, there’s no just reason for Charlie Kirk and his family to have suffered the fate that he did. (more…)

Waiting For Them to Die Off

by: Sonny Go

Current Events, Essays, History, Philippines, Politics | 11 September 2025

This is not something I usually write about, but I’ve been reading a particular set of books that had me thinking about what may happen in the future. Being able to project what may happen in 5 to 10 years can be useful in planning ahead for one’s life. Whether you care about politics or not, it’s worth looking into models that can help make that process more comprehensible and perhaps even more precise. After all, it’s still worth a few brain cells to have some awareness of current events — thinking you’re not affected by them is foolish at best. (more…)

Pro Wrestling: An Oasis in the Desert of the Real

by: Sonny Go

Essays, Life and Philosophy, Pro Wrestling | 02 September 2025

Pro Wrestling: An Oasis in the Desert of the Real

Pro wrestling is a niche like no other, and it has been carved out with not a rusty spoon, but a colorful one, yet a spoon nonetheless. Like most other things on this earth, some like it and some don’t. Some take to it right away and some find it an acquired taste, while doubters and detractors line its outer perimeter like a lumberjack match. Every medium has critics, but those who criticize pro wrestling are seemingly more verbose and animated than most other things under the sun. Even pornography doesn’t invite this level of controversy, I feel. (more…)

Ten Rules for Making Videos

by: Sonny Go

Content Creation, Guides | 12 August 2025

While I’m far from the veteran content creator I should be due to not being as consistent as I could’ve been, I still have years of experience in playing with this stuff and helping others with their own efforts. Therefore, I feel like I can still make a guide on content creation that can help beginners make better sense of the process. I’ve made a list of rules that should be easy enough to remember and understand, based on what I’ve learned for the past 10-15 years. (more…)

One Time, Never Again

by: Sonny Go

Essays, Life and Philosophy | 26 June 2025

Ichi-go Ichi-e: One Time, One Meeting, Never Again

If there’s one thing I should be doing more, which is to write a lot more on this blog. There are times when I find myself thinking that by not cranking out more material, I’m wasting my days on this earth. Perhaps that’s not a healthy thing to think about, but it does make me feel bad sometimes. This post is a musing on the unpredictability of the future and how we must all make the most of our time on this earth. However, writing for me is a lone endeavor — no one tells me to write other than myself. Perhaps I should spend more time with other people. (more…)

Death is Thy Savior, Ego is the Devil

by: Sonny Go

Essays, Religion | 18 June 2025

It was one of those late nights when I, who usually would fall asleep in a snap, was overcome with a rare insomnia. I would pace around the house restlessly, not knowing for sure what I wanted to do at the moment. I settled down and tried to focus on watching some YouTube videos. None of the usual stuff grabbed my attention, so I drifted to videos about psychology and philosophy. As I went through them, a lightbulb in my head started to flicker. This is the result of that uneasy night — a short treatise on religion and spirituality from my perspective. (more…)

How to Fight Mass Manipulation

by: Sonny Go

Books, Essays, Lists, Politics | 29 May 2025

With everything happening around the world as of 2025 — especially in society, politics, and economics — we may ask ourselves every so often how all of this ended up this way. Whether you now doubt the power of democracy or knew all along what it entailed in a society with lowering education quality, increasing cost of living, and worsening partisanship, you must be wary of the mass manipulation that sways our judgment through mass media and the Internet. Whether it’s traditional media or social media, all of them try to tell you what to think and believe — on who to believe in and who to hate. Perhaps the way is not to look for what to believe, but think for oneself and come to that conclusion on your own. However, they don’t want that. (more…)