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There you are, staring into the abyss of the world, paralyzed in the face of all that darkness.
The Myth of Identity and the Danger of Worry
If you wish to live free from fear and worry, do not try to prevent them, but rather prepare yourself. For the cost of your worry is that your joy is diminished, your hope obscured, and your generosity truncated.
Type, Archetype, Culture, & the Self
Bias patterns are probabilistic, not deterministic. Even adding archetypal patterns, cultural patterns, familial patterns does not get us to a deterministic model, but merely alters the probabilities.
Sequences and Arrangements: The Tradeoffs of Spatial and Temporal Bias Patterns
Orientation is about knowing where we are in space and when we are in time.
Objective vs. Subjective: Unveiling the Biases that Shape our Perceptions of Truth
Our disagreements often revolve around understanding what is true and how we update our knowledge when faced with conflicting information.
The Roots of Personality: An Introduction to Heuristics & Relative Bias
No matter how hard one tries to model the perspective of another, it will always be a model, at best a re-presentation of the information and sense data of the world through a hypothetical lens.
Through Error, Survival: Patterns of Bias as Specialization of Cognitive Labor in a Complex Probabilistic Reality
Personality is who we are without trying to be anybody, not who we are trying to be.
Corrective vs Preemptive Morality
Good is not the absence of evil, evil is the absence of good.
When Choking on Your Own Blood
Learn to suffer, not to panic.
Change by Repetition: The Value of Mantra in Everyday Life
Our backlit screens are distraction engines. They trick us about what time of day it is, and they trick us into wanting things we don’t want and into not wanting things we actually need. We are confused, and by that confusion, we further confuse ourselves and each other.
Life Off-Script
Our scripts are killing us.
Writing Our Way to Ecological Renaissance
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
Surveying the Wild Mind | Part 1
Language helps create empathy. The more and better language we have to describe our emotions, our reactions, or on the technical side, precise statements of our biochemical processes or marginal requirements — the better we can understand and express our wants and needs.
Change: The Substance of Life
Self-consciousness is the specialized domain of knowledge that covers “all the changes I can influence.”
Consciousness, Evolution, & Survival
Consciousness represents the layers of awareness that aid our survival and flourishing—the power of human consciousness is that we can intentionally keep adding these layers.
Writing Our Way to Ecological Renaissance
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
The Why and How of Keeping a Journal
A journal preserves the life experience of an individual. The more ruthlessly self-honest the journaler, the purer and more expansive the preservation.
