Mind & Psychology

Perception, ego, healing and practice — what the mind notices, denies and can transform.

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Meditations on Analysis Paralysis

A meditation on how overthinking disguises itself as wisdom, and how clarity is more often earned through small, reversible steps than discovered through perfect plans.

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Socionics: Beyond MBTI

A guided walk from Jung’s Psychological Types to MBTI and onward into Socionics—information metabolism, Model A, and why type is less a label than a relational architecture.

10m
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Chains of Thoughts

An exploration of the invisible chains that link our thoughts, emotions, and assumptions, and how becoming aware of them can reshape how we see ourselves and the world.

11m
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The Metabolic Pause: How Fasting Lets the Body Heal Itself

A contemplative exploration of fasting as a metabolic pause that lowers insulin, awakens glucagon and ketones, and gives the liver, brain, and cells the time and space they need to repair.

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In the Pursuit of Knowledge

A reflection on the finite life of the knower against the seemingly unbounded horizon of knowledge, and on what it means to keep learning and speaking in the face of that tension.

11m
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The Rope and the Leap: How Mentality Shapes Reality

An exploration of how mentality, self-confidence, and the willingness to cut the internal rope of restraint shapes our actions and the reality we come to inhabit.

10m
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The Discrepancy between the Ideal and the Lived Reality

Reflections from late-evening delivery rounds on how the gap between how life looks and how it feels reveals a deeper discrepancy between the ideal order of reality and the lived weight of experience.

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The Valeon Lemma

An exploration of the “Valeon Lemma”: when we appeal to genuine uncertainty, intellectual honesty requires us to admit not only feared worst cases, but also the possibility of unexpected goods.

5m
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The Rhythm of History

A meditation on the cyclical rhythm of history—how moments like 1918, 1920, and 1929 reveal repeating human patterns of crisis, forgetting, and consequence, and what it would mean to truly learn from them.

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The Price of Time: Opportunity Cost and the True Value of Money

Time changes value, and every choice carries a “compared to what?”—a lens that links the time value of money, opportunity cost, and discount rates to real decisions in life and business.

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