“Be personal, not formal or academic.”

This statement is one of the prompts we received to write for this magazine, TMI: Taejae Moments and Insights. It actually puzzled me. Partly because academia and philosophical thinking are a big part of my identity. But the most significant reason was that I did not have anything personal to write about. In other words, I could not find any other topics to write about except critique and academic knowledge.

Where I was told these instructions. It actually puzzled me. I could not find any other topics to write about except critique and academic knowledge.