Category: Slowseeing
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The Retirement Trap
The Setup Most people have planned their finances for retirement.Very few have planned their days. Most people don’t retire because they can’t afford to.Many don’t retire because they can’t handle what comes after. We are…
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Reality Is Full of Surprising Details
Reality is full of surprising details Not because reality is unpredictable, but because your view of it is incomplete, shaped over time by what you repeatedly pay attention to, what your work rewards you for…
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Smart People Build Better Systems. Differently Free People Wake You Up From Them
We are often told to surround ourselves with smart people, and on the surface, that sounds like solid advice. Smart people challenge you, sharpen your thinking, and raise your standards. But there is a structural…
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Intelligence Too Cheap to Meter – Part III
The problem of humanity is not technology but the use of technology ~ Norbert Wiener This essay continues the argument developed in Part I, Intelligence Too Cheap to Meter: Artificial Intelligence and the Rise of…
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The Attention–Identity Loop
Most people think populism begins with a leader. I do not think that is true. By the time a leader appears, most of the work is already done. The conditions are already there. Trust is…
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Intelligence Too Cheap to Meter – Part II
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked ~ John Gall This essay continues the argument from Part I, Intelligence Too Cheap to Meter – Artificial…
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The Story You Cannot Avoid
But how could you live and have no story to tell, Oh Fyodor! The line refuses to behave like something you admire and move on from because it lingers with a quiet persistence, as if…
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VI : Order
Order feels natural when it exists. Streets are navigable, systems function, and routines hold together. Because of this, it is easy to mistake order for something permanent or self-sustaining. In reality, it is produced and…
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Intelligence Too Cheap to Meter – Part I
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization, and above all by the disenchantment of the world ~ Max Weber, Science as a Vocation Intelligence too cheap to meter. The phrase is…
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V : Lessons the Body Never Forgets
As a kid growing up every summer, I enrolled in the same hockey training camp, and although at the time it felt less like a camp and more like a carefully structured exercise in exhaustion,…