11 essays on values. All posts
You can't do everything, and productivity won't fix it. Here's what Oliver Burkeman's Four Thousand Weeks really asks once you stop trying to get it all done.
Read moreYou can't find your ikigai because the famous four-circle diagram isn't Japanese — it's a relabelled purpose chart. Here's what the real idea asks of you.
Read moreEpicurus wasn't about luxury. His three kinds of desire — natural and necessary, natural but unnecessary, empty — are a filter for which wants to act on.
Read moreSchopenhauer said life swings between the pain of wanting and the boredom of having. Here's why satisfaction never lasts — and the exit he missed.
Read moreThe quarter-life crisis and midlife crisis get blamed on age. They're the same event: the moment borrowed meaning stops working and you have to choose your own.
Read moreSimone de Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity splits freedom into two kinds: the freedom you can't escape, and the freedom you actually choose to use.
Read moreThe hedonic treadmill explains why success fades fast. The usual fix treats it as a feeling problem — here's why it's actually a decision problem.
Read moreNietzsche's Übermensch isn't about superiority — it's about overwriting your own chosen values before they go stale. Here's what that actually requires.
Read moreFinancial nihilism explains why an entire generation stopped playing by the old rules of money. Here's what the mindset gets right — and what it's missing.
Read moreViktor Frankl said meaning is discovered, not invented. Here's what still works in his logotherapy once you accept there's nothing out there to find.
Read moreNo god, no rulebook, no inherited code — how to build a personal ethic from chosen values instead of borrowed ones, and why it holds up better than either.
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