Essays

The wisdom of purposelessness

Navigating stagnant seas in midlife

Aug 18 •

What succeeds the pursuit of knowledge?

Jul 21 •

Leaning into uncertain times

Jun 23 •

Ancient cypher meets modern code

Deciphering lost words of a lost world.

Apr 29 •

Becoming an empty cage

The subtle process of deconditioning

Mar 18 •

Words cannot impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality - Edgar Allen Poe

Mar 9 •

Cybernetic Apolytus

'Haunted Computer, Android Pope, One serves data, the other hope' - Ray Bradbury

Feb 1 •

The everlasting dance of oneself in oneness. Further notes from Robert Musil’s ‘Man Without Qualities’

Jan 13 •

Robert Musil and the (wo)men without qualities

Jan 6 •

Flee into your solitude

The Way of the Creating Ones, according to Nietzsche

Jan 3 •

Nietzche's advice for a good night's sleep

"A fool seems a wise man with his forty thoughts, but I believe he knows how to sleep"

Jan 1 •

Re-collecting lost words

Gratitude for second-hand bookstores, Project Gutenberg and ForgottenBooks.com

Dec 21, 2024 •

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