Wrapping UpThis will be my last regular weekly posting on Medium in the chain that began at the beginning of 2019. This series, originally intended to…Dec 28, 2024Dec 28, 2024
Slipping AwayWhat is the future? No one knows where we will be What do we bother?Dec 21, 2024Dec 21, 2024
The Last JobsThe last jobs will be those that are categorically human; those that we want humans to do because they are human. We value social media…Dec 14, 2024Dec 14, 2024
Writing LateIn five years, I have never posted a piece late, until today. Caught up in the blur of final papers and thinking about life, my writing…Dec 8, 2024Dec 8, 2024
Change Too FastI can’t kick the feeling that nobody really knows what’s going on with the world. I’m not talking about climate or politics or business…Nov 30, 2024Nov 30, 2024
Little VillageThrushing leaves to fro Hoboken knights whom bestow Never mind the MuseNov 24, 2024Nov 24, 2024
UnconstrainedWe remain governed by scarcity, but possibly not for much longer. We desire abundance and fear it. A lot is at risk. We derive purpose from…Nov 16, 2024Nov 16, 2024
Karma and AgencyKarma is in a sense the opposite of agency. The karmic worldview in the vein of Chekhov and Buddhists is deterministic. Past and future are…Nov 9, 20241Nov 9, 20241
34I survived my Jesus year. I’ve made it to 34. The last year was a tough year, not just for me but for the world. I do feel the dawn of…Nov 2, 2024Nov 2, 2024
More Is UpGeorge Lakoff and Mark Johnson wrote Metaphors We Live By in 1980, a full decade before my birth. This book famously shows how metaphor…Oct 26, 2024Oct 26, 2024
figuring it out yourselfThere is a lot that we learn from our parents. Early in life, it’s just about everything. In an ideal situation, what we learn from our…Oct 19, 2024Oct 19, 2024
Spiritual FutureIn our society’s eagerness to disconnect from the past, we have lost touch with traditions that have mercifully relieved millions of…Oct 13, 2024Oct 13, 2024
(De)reifyMy back-envelope calculations suggest that I am reading between 10 and 1000 times the number of words per week than I did prior to starting…Sep 28, 2024Sep 28, 2024
Artificial ConsciousnessIf there is one nugget of understanding that has crystalized for me while studying metaphysical religions at the graduate level, it’s that…Sep 22, 2024Sep 22, 2024
Immanent v. TranscendentI define spirituality as engagement with that which is not material; that which is not empirically observable or provable. Spirituality in…Sep 14, 2024Sep 14, 2024
Underwater DeitiesUnsurprisingly, Harvard is proving to be an extraordinarily intellectually stimulating environment. Cambridge reminds me a lot of San…Sep 8, 2024Sep 8, 2024
Making KnowledgeThis past week I had my first-year orientation at Harvard Divinity School. While I am doing the one-year program, I was in orientation with…Aug 31, 2024Aug 31, 2024
Profit v. RentI just finished the audiobook of Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis. I would highly recommend it, especially Chapter 5 and 6 which…Aug 25, 2024Aug 25, 2024
