At NUS College, every student has to take a "Thinking With Writing" course. There's a huge variety of these proverbial "NTW" courses covering topics from evolutionary psychology to education inequity, from film analysis to the philosophy of emptiness. It was difficult to choose at first - every course looked amazing.

Ultimately, I chose Art and the Attention Economy, by Dr Tan Teck Heng. I knew I wanted to do something more interpretive. Having spent the immediate past two years of my life in the relatively slow pace of the army during National Service, I had already been thinking about the ways my own attention was directed. I had begun to see a value in boredom (i.e the lack of attention). Art and the Attention Economy gave me the space to put my vague musings about attention to paper.

Here's my final paper below!

I had great fun with this course, and I highly recommend it to anyone who gets a chance to take it!