Philosophy

Reason as a living process — logic, metaphysics, epistemology and meaning in everyday life.

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Hacking, Exploits, and the Hidden Bazaar of Power

An exploration of how hacking and exploit markets serve not only criminals but also governments, intelligence institutions, and security companies that quietly purchase and weaponise systemic insecurity.

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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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When Mercy Steps Aside

A meditation on divine protection, destiny, and the quiet moment when mercy steps aside and leaves us to meet the consequences we have chosen.

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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 Dollar as Token, Part II: Quantitative Easing, Tightening, and the Dollar’s Burn Mechanism

Exploring how quantitative easing and tightening reshape the dollar’s balance-sheet architecture, and how taxation functions as a burn mechanism within a fiat token system.

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The Dollar as Token: Rethinking Taxes in a Fiat Age

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.

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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.

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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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