From Laws to Conservation: Newton’s Grammar of Motion
Newton’s three laws as axioms, F=ma as the grammar of change, and how energy and momentum conservation emerge—told with minimal calculus and hands-on experiments.
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Reason as a living process — logic, metaphysics, epistemology and meaning in everyday life.
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RSS feedNewton’s three laws as axioms, F=ma as the grammar of change, and how energy and momentum conservation emerge—told with minimal calculus and hands-on experiments.
A practical lens (T5) for seeing the transactional rails beneath modern life—Asset, Price, Ledger, Protocol, Power—and for designing humane counters: thick consent, commons-first systems, and dignity-preserving friction where it matters.
A Jungian guide to the “dark night of the soul” as a mental crucible where shadow returns, projections withdraw, and the Self presses for a larger life. We trace the alchemical arc (nigredo → albedo → rubedo) and offer practical vessels—active imagination, dreamwork, somatic anchors, boundaries, and when to seek clinical help.
Memory isn’t a vault but a living economy: fragile patterns in a narrow workspace of attention become durable traces when structure matches capacity and consolidation—sleep, pruning, and schema-building—does its work.
We keep rewarding spectacle over stewardship. This essay maps the incentives and patterns that elevate counterfeit leaders—and offers practical tests and design fixes citizens can use to prefer accountability, integrity, and long-horizon governance.
Habit isn’t a productivity hack but the architecture of consciousness: repetition delegates will to reflex, shaping identity. The aim is “conscious automatism”—habits that serve understanding.
Markets, like minds, move not only on facts but on expectations. The self-fulfilling prophecy shows how shared beliefs turn into order flow, liquidity events, and ultimately the prices that seem to “confirm” those beliefs.
Physics turns wonder into practice: from Archimedes’ geometry and instruments to Galileo’s timing and idealisations, nature begins to speak in numbers we can test.
Responsibility is not a cage but a frame: the weight we consciously choose to carry shapes character, gives freedom direction, and turns endurance into purpose.
A quiet meditation on the ordinary abundance—warm water, clean clothes, bread and eggs, a roof, work, and care—that hides in plain sight, and on gratitude as the ground of desire rather than its denial.