Alchemy of a Soul
My new piece in Wayfare + other updates
Soft Power
Investigating what it means to a live full, free, and flourishing life in an age of intelligent machines
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Burning Alone
Reflections on the philosophical spirit of Burning Man
Building better handles
What does empowerment really mean?
Aching muscles, aching minds
A defense of meaningful work in a world that dreams of automating it away
What resists measure
What is lost when we flatten human worth to our intelligence?
Introducing Soft Power
Evolving the Luftmensch
The persistence of memory
What happens to our minds when machines no longer forget?
Deus ex machina
Freedom and its discontents
Intimations of immortality
Meditations on a WALL-E future
Ecologies of care
Reimagining relations beyond domination and subjugation
Custodian of human enchantment
On AI and the human good — and what I'm working on
Do something that won’t compute
On Wendell Berry and true liberation
Within me there lay an invincible summer
Flourishing in times of grief and darkness
Surrender control over your stories
George Saunders on the parallel crafts of writing and living
Toward a vision of human flourishing
A call to collectively reimagine our world
A part of the divine, eternal scheme
Reflections on "Self-Reliance," Emerson's paean to individualism
Smoke & mirrors
Treading the tightrope between imagination and reality
Do not love half lovers
Are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
Go to the limits of your longing
and have patience with everything unresolved in your heart
Not all those who wander are lost
Meandering reflections on walking the Camino de Santiago