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Agency Without a Self
Argues that rejecting free will and a unified self clarifies rather than undermines agency, meaning, and life design.
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Uncompressed public thinking
Short, plain, unhedged essays on thinking and cognition, civilization, and identity — with poetry, story, and the small crafts of attention: coffee, calendars, kitchens, and code.
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Elasticity of Moral Circles
Human moral circles expand during abundance and security, then contract to immediate community under scarcity and disruption.
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All postsInterregnum and the Time of Monsters
Unpacks the "old world dying, new world unborn" formulation — what it diagnoses, what Gramsci actually wrote, and why seeing early only helps those willing to move.
Technology Flattening Natural Cycles
Examines whether technology erases natural cycles or their evidence, and whether that loss outweighs the suffering those cycles imposed.
Reading as Cognitive Event
Reading's value lies not in extracting propositions but in the irreplaceable mental activity of grappling with ideas over time.
AI Coding Agents and Attention
Examines how AI coding agents remove execution friction, shifting the bottleneck to attention and amplifying existing attentional tendencies.
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Two Epistemic Cycles
Two Latin mottos map epistemic life as inner formation (think, learn, connect, declare) and outer execution (perceive, connect, effect).
Uncompressed Public Thinking
Argues that mid-century thinkers like Feynman and Watts spoke before optimization, reputational risk, and compression eroded public thought.
Old Man by the River
A short story of a father and son fishing, exploring memory, impermanence, and presence through quiet dialogue.
Republic Continuity as Achievement
Argues that the American republic's survival is an active, recurring achievement requiring each generation's recommitment, not inevitable destiny.
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