Some Writings

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Bennour Mohamed Hsin

The country of industry, the state of science was built by our working hands! -- Soviet poster, 1964

Own up, come on, own up - who’s eaten the last sandwich?

I confess! I think I might have been much more naive than I should I have been. Naievity isn’t the consequence of simple ideas, or complex ones. Those can have their merit…

Henri Rousseau, The Dream , 1910, oil on canvas

An emotional state that is associated with mild to severe levels of discomfort!

Usually I start some of my blog posts by saying I haven’t written for a long time, meaning usually few weeks or months. this time IT’S BEEN 4 YEARS. I knew that I should…

Unmeaningful words are meaningful

To reflect, is to look back at the past embrace it, accept it, and deduce wisdom and lessons from it. It’s something I’m used to doing regularly especially after intense and…

Six months after a talk

The man in the high castle touched my arm and praised the body change that I went through, ‘would you care to grab a bite when you are in Tunis?’, he asked in a weirdly…

At the front, George Cochran Lambdin-1866

To sabotage, or not to sabotage!

On the 23rd of December, National Pen the company I work at, prepares all staff everywhere in the world to go on an annual leave. It seems there’s a tradition to play secret…

Debreif

When you start a new lifestyle focusing on your well being you start forgetting what the ‘before change’ feels like, but you definitely don’t forget why you started, the…

New goals?

Somehow I got my shit together and decided to actually write something in this blog after months of frustration and decepointement to say the least. Frankly I think I’m only…

The nihilist- Paul Merwart

Cheesy Existence

“No one exists on purpose, no one belongs any where, we are all going to die” - Morty

Hannibal crossing the Alps-1980

The wrong inspirations and the right calculations

It’s been a while indeed. Tons of things happened since my last post on the personal and the professional level as well. This post is supposed to carefully explain what I am…

Mission Accomplished -Geno Peoples

Le moi en marche!

Friday, the 25th of December, I defended my master thesis entitled : “A Directional Distance Function Double-Bootstrap Approach to Assess the Tunisian Education System”. Now…

'The fog of war', PAINTING BY LIEUTENANT ANSON 1935

Pragmatically interesting

Recently, I have applied to many research positions in different parts of the world where I am supposed to bring my quantitative and coding background to the battle grounds…

They think its funny too!

Good morning AMERICAAAA!

politics

I didn’t write anything in over a month now(without counting my failed attempts to actually do so in the middle of the dark cold nights here). I am not sure what motivated…

An olive tree is a symbol of time-resistance, able to live for thousands of years

Facing time: the consquences

Last Tuesday, my grandmother died after 2 years of fighting liver failure, dementia, and hyper anxiety. May she rest in peace, and may god have mercy upon her. She basically…

Agnolo Bronzino, “Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time,” c. 1545, oil on wood, National Gallery, London.

Measuring time

Most of the times when we ask someone why don’t they workout, they will simply answer: because they have no time for that. Indeed, lack of time is the most popular excuse…

Walter White and Gus Fring holding the body from the explosion

Breaking

I have been trying to figure few things at work, I got fed up and went down to the kitchen to grap a bite. While I was chewing on my last bite on an apple, the dark skin of…

Carl Marx, and Adam Smith: the battle goes on

New capital, old ideas

For some time, I have been thinking about what should I write about next and frankly I couldn’t come up with an interesting subject. At that point I started thinking about…