philosophy

Homo economicus never existed but we still build policy like it does, and people keep getting hurt.

Transhumanism is terror management theory funded by venture capital, and it is telling on itself.

We engineered boredom out of existence and lost something we cannot get back from a screen.

Nothing matters is the intellectual equivalent of not voting and it deserves the same respect.

How mindfulness got stripped from its Buddhist roots and sold back as a productivity hack for corporate America.

The 'finding yourself' narrative assumes a fixed self waiting to be discovered. Identity is constructed, revised, and performed -- and that's more freeing than any gap year.

The harder you chase something, the more it evades you. Alan Watts' backwards law and the paradox of effortless action.

Abolition is not the absence of safety but the presence of something better than cages.

The cult of productivity is a trap. You cannot life-hack your way to meaning. A critique of optimization culture.

The 'attention economy' metaphor gets it wrong, and the error isn't academic.

The distinction between working hard and trying hard. One builds, the other burns you out.

The counterintuitive power of letting go while maintaining discipline. Why surrender and defeat are fundamentally different things.

Ancient philosophy says stop forcing it. Modern burnout rates prove it right. Why wu wei beats grinding every time.

You can't grind your way into flow. That's the whole point. Why trying to manufacture flow defeats the purpose.

The social construction of scientific facts doesn't mean they're not real. It means they're more interesting. Science studies enriches rather than undermines science.

Technology embeds politics. The design is the ideology. There are no mere instruments - every tool shapes what's possible and what's thinkable.

We replaced church with other rituals. They're just less honest about what they are.

Humans require narrative. The question isn't whether you have a mythology, but which one.

A look at what we as individuals must do to reform instead of more grandiose gestures that would only cause short-term fixes like electing a new president for example.

Clock-discipline is a historical invention, not a natural law. The tyranny of the schedule costs us more than we realize.

From feminist revolutionary to 'hyper-racism' advocate: Land's trajectory shows how theoretical transgression can slide into genuine political extremism. His innovations don't excuse what he became.

Philosophy majors now have lower unemployment than computer science graduates. The data on humanities education contradicts everything you've been told.

Bostrom's trilemma is logically valid but empirically empty. The real question isn't probabilityit's whether 'simulated' is even a meaningful category.