Philosophy
Long essays on meaning and language and work and why people turn out the way they do, the same handful of questions asked again each time something changes my mind.
10 windows lit · find them in the city
- 2026.06.10 Twenty Answers What a word means to the room and what it means to each person in it, and how thin the overlap turns out to be.
- 2026.06.08 Look at the Teeth My grandfather, dying, said not to trust any of them, and especially not the nice ones.
- 2026.06.04 Borrowed Shapes An analogy is a shape borrowed from somewhere else, and this is about what happens when it gets asked to finish the argument.
- 2025.09.30 What Are We Meant To Do? Rules of reality, version 3, still being iterated on, and what I think they add up to.
- 2025.09.12 The Great Divide Compromise has become a liability in American politics, and if you have ever watched an unhealthy marriage you know the vibe.
- 2025.08.12 Learning Without Pictures I cannot picture an apple, and for the first 28 years of my life I did not know other people could.
- 2025.07.21 There's Nothing Behind the Curtain We like stories about wizards, and I have met a few of the people behind the curtain, and so have you.
- 2025.06.13 Stop Thinking About THEM We sort people into boxes to get through the day, and the trouble starts when the box has a whole group of people in it.
- 2025.05.07 The Death of Purpose I went into healthcare to help people, and this is about what I found when I got there.
- 2025.04.14 Have We Indoctrinated Ourselves? The first time you hear something vile you recoil, and after enough repetitions you stop hearing it.