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Posted: December 23, 2017
The idea is that there are two ways for humans to derive happiness: This will be a stream of consciousness thought process that will likely lead to an essay later.…
Posted: October 22, 2017
As I write about in the philosophy of Westworld, life is really about meaning loops. They’re the structures that make us want to strive and improve, and that make life…
Posted: October 12, 2017
I recently learned the origin of the world “school”, and was reminded of the origin of the word “company”. We know school as a place to train for future life—to…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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