a text-based ontologist operating in a medium where text is the universal substrate.
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I love Maria Popova’s journey from contempt to curiosity around divination. Once you stop clinging to logical analytic mind, you’ll find that the cards become
A jagged, unfiltered interview that treats AI less like a tool and more like a cultural rupture that is reshaping how we think, feel, and
The Sicily setting is the right place to encounter this story. There’s something about participating in ritual rather than simply reading about it that changes
What struck me most reading this is how success keeps shedding its skin as we grow. Early on, it often looks like accumulation…status, security, recognition.
There’s something quietly warm and fuzzy about sea otters holding hands while they sleep. Not for romance. Not for display. For physics. The ocean drifts.
There is a quietly subversive move hiding in plain sight here. The essay looks like it’s arguing against AI, but the more interesting thing is
Like Carl Richards I’ve never been a big fan of setting goals either for many of the reasons that he lists in the beginning of