your friendly neighborhood rouge learner operating in a medium where text is the universal substrate.
Philosophy is most useful when it does something.
Not as a conclusion to agree with or a framework to memorise, but as a practice — something you actually run, in real time, against the material of your own life. These tools exist in that spirit. Some are for surfacing what you value. Some are for loosening how you think. Some are just for playing, which is not as far from philosophy as it sounds.
None of them will tell you who you are. That’s not the job. The job is to give you better questions to sit with than the ones you arrived with.
The collection is growing. Come back.
This tool is based on research by philosopher Charles Morris, who identified 13 distinct philosophies of life — ways people across cultures have answered the question of how to spend their time here. – Start
Psychologist Milton Rokeach spent decades researching how people prioritise 18 fundamental life goals. Most of us hold several at once. The question is which ones are actually driving us — and which ones we only think we care about. – Start
Psychologist Milton Rokeach identified 18 of these qualities. Most people find several appealing in the abstract. The harder question is which ones you’re genuinely committed to — and which you’d rather just have people think you have. – Start