07/02/2026
Brittle Moral Education
From disillusionment at work, with rules, and in public discourse, this article explains how thin moral education can turn local disappointment into generalized cynicism.
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Writing Complex Ideas Clearly
Long-form arguments about technology, logic, institutions, and everyday life.
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06/23/2026
Endings and Renewal
A reflection on terminal teleology, explaining how goals can organize present practice without monopolizing the meaning of life.
06/22/2026
Rebuilding Our Relationship With the World
Using Hartmut Rosa's theory of resonance to explore how people can hear the world again after habits of possession, extraction, and control.
06/21/2026
Rediscovering Life in Ordinary Moments
Using Dewey's idea of complete experience to ask which everyday activities can carry a felt sense of life, aesthetic value, and a real sense of completion.
06/20/2026
Meaning Emerges Between Body and World
Using Merleau-Ponty's view of the body to explore how people can move from performance-based self-inspection back into the concrete world.
06/19/2026
The illusion of freedom
Why purposeless rest has become so difficult in a culture of self-optimization, performance-driven growth, and internalized discipline.
06/06/2026
Kindness With Teeth
Why cooperation in the real world needs boundaries, retaliation, and room for honest error.
06/06/2026
Leave Room for Misunderstanding
A repeated prisoner's dilemma experiment with real monetary rewards shows how people slow down punishment and try to repair cooperation in noisy environments.
06/06/2026
The Most Intimate Game
A game-theoretic reading of intimacy, showing why stable love needs boundaries, repair attempts, and the willingness to receive them.
06/01/2026
The Schema-Instance Chain: From Concrete Objects to Relational Structures
A cognitive model for understanding concrete objects, relational structures, and metacognitive reflection.