The Map is Mostly Water

Veganism and Moral Intuitions

Inspecting some ethical claims, in the hope you might revisit some of your own intuitions

Jun 24 • Simon Sarris

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March 2026

Designing a New Old Home: Mistakes

But in me haste to do the job, I was too blind to see

Mar 5 • Simon Sarris

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January 2026

For Babies: Things You Need and Don't

By Simi

Jan 8 • Simon Sarris and Simplicity Sarris

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Ink in the Stomach

Something I believe very strongly, mostly from observing changes in myself, is that, once you’ve shoved your own hands deep in the entrails of a…

Jan 3 • Simon Sarris

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November 2025

Viscerality

some notes on pleasure

Nov 2, 2025 • Simon Sarris

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July 2025

Californias

The first time I went out to Silicon Valley, or California for that matter, or anywhere at all west of New York state, was after college.

Jul 29, 2025 • Simon Sarris

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April 2025

Growing a Hornbeam Hedge

What's involved and the cost

Apr 12, 2025 • Simon Sarris

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March 2025

creatures of temperament

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing:

Mar 30, 2025 • Simon Sarris

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February 2025

Why make something beautiful?

on starting a rose garden

Feb 28, 2025 • Simon Sarris

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Love Grows

The world is covered with a thin film of inertia.

Feb 8, 2025 • Simon Sarris

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December 2024

Resist Summary

painfully quick thoughts about AI

Dec 31, 2024 • Simon Sarris

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October 2024

School is Not Enough

Learning is a consequence of doing

Oct 27, 2024 • Simon Sarris

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