Archive - The Map is Mostly Water

The Most Precious Resource is Agency

I have edited and expanded this in a newer post, you should read that instead: School is Not Enough

Jul 1, 2021 •

One belief I have is that if you wish to be virtuous you will learn to eat cereal virtuously.

Oct 19, 2024 •

School is Not Enough

Learning is a consequence of doing

Oct 27, 2024 •

painfully quick thoughts about AI

Dec 31, 2024 •

In Praise of the Gods

What the Rationalistic World Forgot. the stupor of rationality • stories, building intuition • alchemy, building process • religion, building wonder

Jul 19, 2020 •

Reading is alluring.

Jul 17, 2023 •

quests, failure, desire

or: contra defensive postures

Aug 9, 2024 •

Efforts and Goals and Joy

There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to concentrate on.

Dec 31, 2023 •

Patina and Intimacy

“Each one of us has, somewhere in his heart, the dream to make a living world, a universe.”

Apr 8, 2022 •

The world is covered with a thin film of inertia.

Feb 8 •

Careful technology

May 21, 2024 •

Why Buy a House (or Land)?

A lesson in ignoring economics

Apr 15, 2024 •

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