Superb Owl

I’ve listened to this album at least half a dozen times over the last few weeks.

I’m finding it hard to write these days.

Every few weeks I go to a public space, lay on the ground with strangers, and let crystal singing bowls carry me off into bliss.

Scott Alexander recently published a thoughtful and heartbreaking piece grappling with his role in the emergence of a tyrannical government in America.

Math and meditation make a strange pair.

I’ve been meditating for nearly a decade now, and consider it one of my most important habits.

In How to Start a Meditation Practice I advised readers to “just sit”.

This post is part of QRI’s HEART program.

This post is part of QRI’s HEART program.

In Exegesis posts, I project my own ideas onto popular art—mainly fiction, music, and film—with little regard for the artist’s intentions.

I’ve lived many lives over the course of my thirty-odd years.

This is the annual meta post, for those of you who are curious about me and the state of the blog.

Minus the Nonsense is a series on valuable ideas that have been tainted by magical thinking.

In Exegesis posts, I project my own ideas onto popular art—mainly fiction, music, and film—with little regard for the artist’s intentions.

I’d like to share one of my first (sober) mystical experiences.

Ask yourself two questions: How do I feel about myself?

I’ve always been drawn towards Utilitarianism.

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

When I first felt it, I had no word for it.

In Exegesis posts, I project my own ideas onto popular art—mainly fiction, music, and film—with little regard for the artist’s intentions.