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Why You Should Write Every Day (Even if You’re Not a Writer)

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6 min read

Why You Should Write Every Day (Even if You’re Not a Writer)

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Philosophy

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8 min read

Cheap Certainty Is Eating the World

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6 min read

The Map Is Not the Territory (and It’s Definitely Not Progress)

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Philosophy

You Are Insignificant. That's a Good Thing.

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You Are Insignificant. That's a Good Thing.

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Philosophy

Why Stories Make You Smarter Than Self-Help Books

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6 min read

Why Stories Make You Smarter Than Self-Help Books

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Philosophy

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6 min read

You Are Not the Final Generation

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Philosophy

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The Illusion of Independent Thought

Everyone’s a Philosopher Until the Algorithm Chooses the Tribe

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996 Just Means You Have No Leverage

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Philosophy

There is Only One Hack: Do it for a Decade.

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4 min read

There is Only One Hack: Do it for a Decade.

Just Keep Doing the Thing

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Philosophy

Forget Finding Yourself. Lose Yourself Instead.

Oct 9, 2025

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6 min read

Forget Finding Yourself. Lose Yourself Instead.

Stop Trying to Pick the Perfect Path

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Productivity

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The Exhaustion of Permanent Disruption

The Slow Death of Mastery

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Philosophy

Oct 8, 2025

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9 min read

Why Cynicism is Just Moral Cowardice

When Did Belief Became Cringe?

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Philosophy

Oct 5, 2025

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5 min read

I’m Done Future-proofing my Life.

Let the Storm Come

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Philosophy

The Sacred Object of a Generation is a $59 IKEA Shelf

Oct 4, 2025

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5 min read

The Sacred Object of a Generation is a $59 IKEA Shelf

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Philosophy

Why I Stopped Making Cameo Appearances in Other People’s Lives

Oct 3, 2025

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6 min read

Why I Stopped Making Cameo Appearances in Other People’s Lives

Friendship Doesn’t Owe You Forever

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Philosophy

Oct 1, 2025

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5 min read

Originality is a Scam

Stop Waiting for Lightning

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Philosophy

Sep 30, 2025

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6 min read

The Compound Effect of Consistency

Everyone Wants the Breakout. Nobody Wants the Decade.

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Philosophy

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8 min read

Remember: Kurt Vonnegut was 47

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Productivity

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4 min read

I Don't Network. I Write.

A Good Essay Outlasts A Thousand Handshakes.

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Philosophy

We've Hit Personal Agency Hyperfinflation

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6 min read

We've Hit Personal Agency Hyperfinflation

The Empire of Convenience

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Philosophy

Sep 24, 2025

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8 min read

The Danger of Stoic Sadism

When Resilience Turns into Cruelty

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Self Help

Sep 22, 2025

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8 min read

Why Belief Beats Discipline

The Three Steps: Pretend → Believe → Become

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Economics

Plaguenomics: The Social Recession We Can’t Escape

Sep 19, 2025

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14 min read

Plaguenomics: The Social Recession We Can’t Escape

How COVID Rewired Civilization

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Philosophy

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6 min read

Boarding Group One

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Self Help

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Don't Make Your Bed

Your Bed Isn’t the Problem

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Essay

Why You Should Write Every Day (Even if You’re Not a Writer)

Cheap Certainty Is Eating the World

The Map Is Not the Territory (and It’s Definitely Not Progress)

You Are Insignificant. That's a Good Thing.

Why Stories Make You Smarter Than Self-Help Books

You Are Not the Final Generation

The Illusion of Independent Thought

996 Just Means You Have No Leverage

There is Only One Hack: Do it for a Decade.

Forget Finding Yourself. Lose Yourself Instead.

The Exhaustion of Permanent Disruption

Why Cynicism is Just Moral Cowardice

I’m Done Future-proofing my Life.

The Sacred Object of a Generation is a $59 IKEA Shelf

Why I Stopped Making Cameo Appearances in Other People’s Lives

Originality is a Scam

The Compound Effect of Consistency

Remember: Kurt Vonnegut was 47

I Don't Network. I Write.

We've Hit Personal Agency Hyperfinflation

The Danger of Stoic Sadism

Why Belief Beats Discipline

Plaguenomics: The Social Recession We Can’t Escape

Boarding Group One

Don't Make Your Bed

Westenberg.