Meaning Anchors
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/meaning-anchors/Posted: May 20, 2017
It’s pretty obvious that people need meaning in their lives, but I wonder if the rise of suicide and opiates use can be seen in this light. The way I…
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Evolution, Hormones, Meaning, Story, and Music
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/evolution-hormones-meaning-story-and-music/Posted: September 11, 2016
This is a half-formed idea. Walk with me. Meaning for humans is all centered around story. Narrative. Boy meets girl. Family is reunited. War ravaged the land. Story matters to…
Hormones, Narratives, and Meaning
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/hormones-narratives-meaning/Posted: May 29, 2016
I realized something a few months ago about youth and meaning. I think the reason we feel more alive when we’re young, and the reason that everything feels more significant,…
Evolution as Our Source of Meaning
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/evolution-source-meaning/Posted: December 24, 2014
Evolution is a clever thing. We all know it made us what we are by blindly selecting the most successful among a steady stream of changes. But what we don’t…
The Meaning Stack
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/meaning-stack/Posted: December 9, 2014
In IT we talk about something called a stack, which is basically the set of technologies that a given solution is built upon. I was just thinking about something similar…
Hidden Meaning in Our Language
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/hidden-meaning-in-our-language/Posted: September 2, 2014
But some of his most interesting work has to do with power dynamics. He says that by analyzing language you can easily tell who among two people has power in…
The Poor Have More Meaning in Their Lives
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-poor-have-more-meaning-in-their-lives/Posted: December 22, 2013
Waiting for Meaning, by Marlene Dumas While residents of wealthy nations tend to have greater life satisfaction, new research shows that those living in poorer nations report having greater meaning…
Work and Meaning
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/work-meaning/Posted: October 23, 2013
I go to war that my son may be a politician, that his son may be a merchant, that his son may be an artist. ~ Ben Pieratt As I…
Children Are Not a Rescue from a Lack of Meaning in Your Life
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/children-are-not-a-rescue-from-a-lack-of-meaning-in-your-life/Posted: April 12, 2013
I often challenge people to describe why their lives have meaning. In most cases, the answers are deeply unsatisfying, both to me and to the person answering. Most people describe…
The Difference Between Pursuing Happiness and Pursuing Meaning
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-difference-between-pursuing-happiness-and-pursuing-meaning/Posted: January 28, 2013
This is a brilliant piece about the difference between happiness and meaning, or, more specifically, the difference between pursuing a happy life vs. pursuing a meaningful life. I suggest you…
Parent to Child Propagation of False Meaning
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/parent-to-child-propagation-of-false-meaning/Posted: December 4, 2010
I have many smart conservative friends who take pride in two things in their lives: Having a mainstream, corporate job, and raising their children well. When we have conversations about…
The Alien Social Scientist Test for Meaning
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-alien-social-scientist-test-for-meaning/Posted: November 11, 2010
I have a basic test I put myself through when I think about whether my work and/or my life has meaning at any given moment. Consider what would happen if…
Extracting Meaning from Emptiness
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/extracting-meaning-from-emptiness/Posted: August 20, 2009
It is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that life and existence are eternally justified. — Nietzsche I saw this quote on Reddit recently, and it resonnated with me. It reminded…
Meaning is an Illusion
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/meaning-is-an-illusion/Posted: December 26, 2008
[ NOTE: A and B are exactly the same shade of gray. ] This essay is about the meaning of life, and how realizing there is none is the beginning…
My Vote For the Meaning of Life is the Simulation Model
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/my-vote-for-the-meaning-of-life-is-the-simulation-model/Posted: December 21, 2008
I think if I were to have to guess, I would say that the reason we exist–or, to be more precise–the cause of our existence, is the creation by another…
4 Things the Far Left Are Doing to Drive Moderates to the Right
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/4-things-far-left-drive-moderates-right/Posted: June 22, 2017
Liberalism in the United States is in the middle of a slow motion suicide by poison. We’re watching the unscrewing of the lid, the last looks about the room, and…
Summary: Sapiens
https://danielmiessler.com/projects/reading/summary-sapiens/Posted: April 16, 2017
[ NOTE: These book summaries are designed as captures for what I’ve read, and aren’t necessarily great standalone resources for those who have not read the book. Their purpose is…
Some Thoughts on Dataism
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/some-thoughts-on-dataism/Posted: April 7, 2017
The final chapters of Homo Deus talks about the concept of Dataism. A cursory glance online doesn’t give too many previous reverences to the term, so I’m not sure if…
VPN Recommendations
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/vpn-recommendations/Posted: April 6, 2017
VPNs are becoming a major topic of conversation due to the recent removal of ISP privacy protections. There are hundreds of VPN providers out there already, and more are materializing…
Game Design is About to Become a Critical Career
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/game-design-is-about-to-become-a-critical-career/Posted: March 21, 2017
Game Design—defined not just as the visual elements in a game, but the underlying structure, incentives, value systems, and other mechanics—is about to become an extremely important job in our…
Failure and How to Help People Avoid It
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/failure-and-how-to-avoid-it/Posted: March 19, 2017
One fundamental difference between the left and right is their approach to handling failure. I was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and what I’ve been taught my whole…
Green Zone, Red Zone
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/green-zone-red-zone/Posted: March 19, 2017
This post will be stream of consciousness style. I’m worried that existing trends around income inequality are only going to accelerate, and that this time around it’s going to become…
You Should Have Two Different Kinds of Hiring Interview
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/two-different-kinds-interview/Posted: February 26, 2017
Most companies and managers today are making a fundamental mistake in their hiring process. They are conflating two different types of filter—the positive filter and the negative filter. When most…
America’s Shark Jump
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/americas-shark-jump/Posted: February 26, 2017
The term “Shark Jump” comes from a show called Happy Days, where after many weak episodes a main character jumps a motorcycle over a shark on water skis. The moment…
Violence and Terrorism Are Not the Same
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/violence-terrorism-not/Posted: February 9, 2017
We continue to hear noises about how many recent violent attacks are not being labeled as terrorism, and that this failure to label them as such is (always or usually)…
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