Lisa Kissane

Most of life is duality.

The way we can love someone and also hate them. Or how we can feel happy and sad at the same time.

I'm obsessed with how life gets split in two; opposing forces underneath the veneer of every one of us. The human mind fascinates me, particularly our capacity for compassion and empathy.

My life has split down the middle more times than I'd like to remember; when my Dad died; when I found out I'd never have kids; when I got a dog.

I write about contradictions and the ability of our unique species to learn from our mistakes and adapt when the floor falls out from beneath us. As long as we open our eyes to the opportunities to do so; because they're always there, if only we choose to see them.

I'm a writer, not a content creator or marketeer or influencer. I tried writing for sales but it never suited me. My heart and soul is anti-capitalist and the pressure to scale, feed the algorithm and produce made me terribly depressed. So I gave it all up.

Writing is slow work. I make decisions deliberately: no social media, no automated emails pretending to be personal (puke!), no bite-size content designed to make you scroll more.

And I'm trying to stay independent and modern-day analogue. It would be almost impossible for an introverted writer like me to exist entirely offline, but I don't need to be captive to the internet. I avoid mainstream software and corporations wherever I can, but I'm only human and it's the second quarter of the 21st Century after all.

I choose to do less rather than lose myself chasing unrealistic goals and targets. In this fucked up world, my values are the only thing I have that can't be taken away at a moment's notice.

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