Writings on Becoming the Best Version of Our "Self":
Physical Health | Emotional Health | Mental Health | Selflessness | Self-Awareness | Developing Identity
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Physical Health | Emotional Health | Mental Health | Selflessness | Self-Awareness | Developing Identity
What causes loneliness? Is it a natural part of being human? Can we overcome loneliness? Dealing with loneliness offers a constructive approach to being alive.
Finding the benefits of loneliness in a very lonely world.
Memory is complicated, transformative information is a myth, and we naturally resist change
Memory requires information to be encoded and changing norms requires overcoming entrenched habits. These two barriers can be mastered with an intentional process that moves our ideas from our heads to our hands.
Our culture is one of transience. What does it mean to belong somewhere? What does it mean to have a place? Similar to marriage, here's how I've found belonging.
Dealing with the loss of something that is still there. Sometimes physical death is easier than existential death. The home I grew up in and the family I was born into no longer exists. I'm still learning how to mourn that death.
The functions of society, social facts, and the collective life according to Emile Durkheim.
A practice to increase your ability to learn - empathy allows us to see more of the world than we currently do. Acknowledge your limitations, pay attention, attribution, and accommodation.
The best way to turn a disagreement into a constructive possibility.
It’s about more than being right — it’s about survival.
The philosophy of desire, intellectual value systems, and resisting change.
An open letter to high school graduates. Fortunately, your story is just getting started.
Two perspectives walk into a room — do they compete or collaborate?
Our Perspectives Are a Problem — What Ought We Do With Them?
The nature of perspective, epistemology, and why we might not know everything.
Marshall McLuhan, Faustian Bargains, and the cultural, sociological, and anthropological implications of what might be better called “media.”
How we change & break orbital resistance.
Four ways we might respond to change.
Is change possible? Or is change inevitable?
Musings on the possibility of change through some old philosophers.
The Examined Life, Part II
Crafting Identity to Become More Human
Transformation, Cheat Codes, and the Long Game