Brainwaves and Tangents is a home for curious minds — a digital notebook for the intellectually restless, the creatively inclined, and the philosophically playful.
We publish essays, epiphanies, and other detours — the kinds of thoughts that don’t always fit neatly into categories, but still stick with you long after you’ve read them. You won’t find clickbait or cookie-cutter advice here. Instead, you’ll find unexpected insights, creative riffs, and gently mind-expanding perspectives on how we think, learn, notice, and wonder.
This isn’t a productivity blog, a philosophy journal, or a creativity handbook. But it borrows a little from all three. You could think of it as a playground for thought — a place to wander intellectually and maybe pick up a few useful ideas along the way.
Our Six Trails of Thought
Rather than rigid categories, our content flows through six loosely defined trails. Think of them as paths you can follow — or veer off from, if you’re so inclined:
- Mental Detours – Unexpected rabbit holes, weird observations, and idea-starters from the edge of awareness.
- Thinking About Thinking – Meta-cognition, mental models, clarity, decision-making, and how we process the world.
- Creative Sparks – Essays on inspiration, artistic process, idea generation, and the creative mind at play.
- Curious Practices – Unusual habits, reflective rituals, and try-it-yourself cognitive experiments.
- Idea Histories – Short intellectual histories of thinkers, tools, techniques, and timeless concepts.
- Mental Playground – Games, puzzles, hypotheticals, and thought experiments that challenge and delight.
Who It’s For
If you’ve ever gone down a Wikipedia rabbit hole for fun, scribbled ideas in the margins of your books, or found yourself lost in thought on a subject no one else seems to care about — you’re in the right place. This site is made for “people who think for pleasure.”
Whether you’re here to procrastinate intelligently, build a better mental habit, or simply indulge your curiosity, welcome. We’re glad you’re here.
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Thanks for visiting. Now go think about something weird.