Tag: Philosophy
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RareRead #005: How Intuitions Work
We tend to think of reason as something we do deliberately. We weigh evidence, follow arguments and arrive at conclusions. Intuition, by contrast, is often dismissed as a gut feeling, something we should be suspicious…
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The Ethics of Reading
A conversation around a quote from Jiddu Krishnamurti left me thinking about something I had not noticed before. The discussion began with his words but wandered into his life instead, into the contradictions people believed…
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The Case for Slowseeing
There is a strange thing that happens to places we know well. The road we take to the office, the park in the neighborhood, the face of a person who has lived beside us for…
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What is an essay
I The word essay has been used very loosely, as we have started using it for reflections, travelogues, reviews, criticisms, opinions, and memoirs. We call any collection of sentences an essay. The boundaries have dissolved…
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The Mentor Illusion
The modern obsession with mentors is not really about mentors. It is another chapter in humanity’s long search for someone else to carry the burden of certainty. It has become almost impossible to discuss careers,…
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The Art of Letting Go
Every civilization leaves behind tools for living. We often mistake them for relics. Every civilization leaves behind two kinds of inheritance. The first is visible: cities, temples, institutions, roads, technologies, works of art, and systems…
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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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No One Owns the Story
No one owns the story once sounded like a poetic reflection about media decentralization, but it now feels like the defining structural condition of our civilization, a redistribution of narrative authority across markets, corporations, cultural…
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Things that endure
Most writing today is reactive. It responds to events, arguments, and passing moments, trying to explain what has just happened or anticipate what might come next. That kind of writing has its place, but it…
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V : The Empty Center
There is a particular feeling that marks modern life, and it is easy to miss because it does not announce itself as a crisis. Life works. Schedules fill up. Systems function. Messages arrive. Tasks get…