Hi, I'm Gabana.

I wanted to call this platform Afterskool before I found out there is already a well-known platform by that name that shares interesting animated content about philosophy, psychology, and big ideas. I genuinely enjoy their content.

The reason the name came to mind is simple. Most of what this space explores are the kinds of things people only start discovering after school. Some discover them while still in school, but most only begin to ask these questions much later — if at all.

When we are young, questions come naturally.

Parents usually give some sort of answer — sometimes religious, sometimes cultural, sometimes just something practical to move the conversation along. And somewhere in that exchange, for most people, the questions quietly close. Life accelerates. School, work, responsibilities, building something for yourself. The asking stops.

For me it never really did.

At some point I realised that if I didn't at least try to understand what this whole thing is — this experience of being alive, this mind, this reality we move through — then every view I formed about life would be built on top of something I had never actually examined. It felt like Reality 101. The kind of thing you would want to understand before anything else.

Now, I won't lie — this path has not always been good for my pocket. While some of my friends were busy making serious moves in life, I was often somewhere deep in thought, reading something strange, or wrestling with questions that don't exactly show up on job descriptions. It wasn't very strategic. But I also couldn't really walk away from it.

Over time one thing became increasingly clear: when you begin to understand your own mind deeply, you inevitably begin to understand human nature as well. The two are not separate. Looking inward carefully enough reveals patterns that belong to all of us.

"We must remember, that knowledge of one's own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general."

— Abraham Maslow