Tag: philosophy
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Making an Impact
At some point, we all wonder if we’re making a difference in the world, at the very least, if we’ve left a memorable impression on someone close to us. If we’re being ambitious, the ethical goal of a human life is to make a personally meaningful contribution to the world. Not necessarily world-historical, name-in-textbooks-level impact,…
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Programs of AI
Artificial intelligence is no longer confined to research labs or futuristic speculation. It is already reshaping industries, workplaces, and everyday life. The emergence of multimodal large language models (LLMs), powered by the transformer architecture, has led to significant improvements in natural language processing, computer vision, and speech recognition use cases. AI systems are increasingly capable…
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Owning Well
The objects we own, the clothes we wear, and the tools we use are more than just functional items. They tell a story about our values, our sense of self, and our engagement with the world. Yet in modern consumer culture, the relationship to possessions has splintered into competing ideologies. There are those who believe…
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Feel the Momentum
This blog is about understanding the world, making sense of ourselves, and using that clarity to build a more fulfilling and connected life. I explore how ideas shape the way we live, from the nature of time to personal growth, relationships, and social change.
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Journaling for Thinking and Deliberation
These prompts are designed to guide you through a structured process for evaluating your assumptions and deliberating about contentious decisions. It also helps you evaluate actions based on their impact on basic needs, autonomy, and existential needs.
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Logic, Quiet Companion
If I observe my thoughts, I notice that they often serve to fill in something that isn’t immediately present or fully within my awareness. In other words, my mind is constantly engaged in processes of prediction and explanation—anticipating what might happen next and making sense of what I observe. For example, when I see the sky is grey,…
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Watch, Feel, Prove
This post will explore how sensory observation, reason, and intuition each contribute to our understanding of the world, their interrelationships, and how we might navigate their tensions to form a more complete way to insights about the world.
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Harmonizing Ethics
In this post we will explore three major categories of values reflecting the embodied, rational and emotionally attuned nature of what it means to be human and the overarching value of alignment that encompasses them all.
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What’s Reality Like?
Should we consider reality a collection of particles, waves, objects, or something more elusive, like experiences, sensations, and ideas? Varying approaches have tried to pin down the answer, from materialist notions that everything is matter, to spiritual conceptions of a universal consciousness from which everything comes about. Each approach contributes something unique, yet for the…
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Sustainable Generosity
Challenges like poverty, climate crises, global health disparities, and rising inequalities shape our contemporary international landscape. Faced with these realities, many of us ask: how can we contribute in a meaningful way that truly makes a difference? In this pursuit, movements like the Effective Altruism (EA) and others have emerged as a response, offering a path that…
Feeling Momentum 