Reason as a living process — logic, metaphysics, epistemology and meaning in everyday life.
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In a post–gold standard world, the US dollar behaves less like a claim on scarce metal and more like a state-issued token—making taxes less about “funding” government and more about burning tokens to manage inflation and anchor demand for the currency.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
