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On Nature's Majesty

Our devices are black holes binging on the light and energy of human attention.

I needed to sleep so that I could dream. I needed to dream so that, later, I could achieve.

Alone in the most remote region of Iceland

My New Year's Eve journal entry upon the sunset of 2024 (edited on New Year's Day for your reading pleasure)

Weaning myself off the teat of algorithmic feeds

What I learned from getting robbed in Iceland

A three-paragraph play of Nature's mystery and man's ambition

There is nothing more noble in Nature than a glacier.

This is a rant, but it's also a call to use our democratic power of consumption to shape culture.

Don't you want to remember them?

An allegory

There is no E-ZPass.

Each patron is exalted as a temporary exhibit featuring the books in their head.

We're optimized for viral moments, not compelling arguments.

A compass that points toward a universal truth

Do we deserve the gift of fire?

I am human because I dream. I dream because I am human.

Make like Nature, and grow.

Giving you a sense of barbecue-baseball bliss

Time-traveling to the present moment

Set your sights on the horizon, and sail toward fulfillment.

Insights and essays from a sage of the craft

You can achieve monogamy and autonomy.

Agnostic reflections on the necessity of faith

Resurrect your best ideas—the perks of writing in pixels rather than print.

My full answer to a frequently asked question: 'Why don't you drink?'

Faith and skepticism are compatible.

A dose of dream-inspired prose on distraction in the Digital Age

It's not enough to listen and look. Smell, taste, and feel what you read.

When you hear it, tip your hat and walk away.

Be careful communing with Nature. She may shatter your standard of beauty.

Ground your freedom in meaning, and leaven your fate by laughing in its face.

On commitment's compatibility with freedom

Either satire or a summary of the Internet’s best writing advice

Your inspiration will never expire, as long as you remember to breathe.

The only black box I need is my subconscious.

Find the notes in the noise, then start composing.

All the information we consume is packaged as entertainment, and our awareness suffers for it.

Life is a gift and so is our awareness of death.

Once we accept that nothing inherently matters, we unlock the freedom to decide what matters.

So much of Her majesty is in our periphery. That’s why no frame can do justice to Nature

Love the whole, not just some of its parts.

You'll find beauty everywhere if you explore and create moments of stillness along the way.

If all it means for a romance to be doomed is that you know it will end, then all relationships are doomed. Because everything ends.

Rather than being a spring beneath the lake of your ego, make your self into a geyser.

It's okay that people come and go because the alternative is that you lose yourself.

The path to unity starts with commonplace humility.

On my first time writing and revising fiction

"Someone ought to intervene, so it doesn’t have to be me.”

A narrative analysis of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Only indulge in moderation, align your desires with your values, and approach what you identify as inherently good.

Assuming a leadership position means taking a position in front of others, not above others.

Ignore evolutionary impulses, occasionally.

Criticisms of the Categorical Imperative

Depth and Authenticity

You may find that your own lawn is the best spot on the block.

Treat others as you would like to be treated if you were them.

The conflict necessary for growth is that between what you knew and what you have learned

Understanding entropy is one way to start accepting change

Polarization isn’t an increase in opposition; it's a decrease in our tolerance for opposition