Unfiltered Thoughts

Unfiltered Thoughts

Real thoughts about life, technology, people, and the questions we often overlook. No hype just simple ideas worth thinking about.


The Difference Between Being Rich and Being Wealthy

23 Aug 2026 2 minute read 1 comment ProofOfThought $0.19

Rich and wealthy are two words that people frequently interchange because they think they mean the same thing. However, this is not true. To be rich normally means someone has high earning power or an abundance of money at a particular point in time....

The Fear of Missing Out Is More Than a Social Trend

22 Aug 2026 2 minute read 0 comments ProofOfThought $0.15

think that many of us have experienced FOMO before. You see your friends enjoying themselves without you. Your friend buys something that everybody is talking about. You log into Instagram and all of a sudden everyone seems to be travelling, accompli...

How Encryption Protects Messages During Transmission

21 Aug 2026 2 minute read 1 comment ProofOfThought $0.24

Information transferred via the Internet might go through many different networks and equipment during its journey until reaching the recipient. In such a case, the information becomes vulnerable to being intercepted and read or modified by a third p...

Today, I Lost the Person I Truly Loved😓

19 Aug 2026 1 minute read 5 comments ProofOfThought $0.10

It feels different today. Sometimes, it takes being confronted with the prospect of living without someone before realizing just how much that person means to you. A person that you thought was always a part of your daily thoughts can turn into a mem...

Can AI Help Decode Animal Communication?

16 Aug 2026 1 minute read 1 comment ProofOfThought $0.08

Throughout most of human history, animals have been signaling information to each other in all directions around us  but without us knowing what they are trying to say. Birds chirp, whales make sophisticated sounds, elephants communicate over vast di...

The Strange Loneliness of Being Constantly Connected

11 Aug 2026 1 minute read 3 comments ProofOfThought $0.10

Isn't it strange how easy it is to communicate with somebody these days? You could text somebody in the middle of the night. You could ring up somebody thousands of kilometres away from you. You open an application and immediately find out what hundr...

What If Social Media Had Never Been Invented?🤔

10 Aug 2026 1 minute read 2 comments ProofOfThought $0.04

Sometimes, I wonder what the world would be like without social media. Not because I don't like it. Because I do. I browse when I'm bored, I post things for my friends, watch some random video and get stuck on it for a really long time. But imagine i...