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The World Is a Verb, Not a Noun

What Sanskrit, metabolism, and markets reveal about reductionism's deepest error.

The Compounding Architecture of Debt

What software maintenance teaches us about biological maintenance. Technical debt and metabolic debt are the same phenomenon in different substrates.

Why you need a plan B for financial security

Financial diversification strategy that will give you self-sovereignty like never before

To err or not to err?

The good(?), the bad and the ugly side of errors

How unique?

How unprecedented are the times we are living in?

Hiding in plain sight

Why can’t you serve both god and mammon?

Did Pink Floyd get it right when they said that ‘We don’t need no education?’

The power of systems of education and it's limits

Play devil’s advocate with yourselves to stay relevant

If you are willing to let go, if you are ready to sacrifice, you can let your old ideas die. And not you.

How ready are you to confront your limits and the current limits of established institutions?

How post-viral illnesses are a blindspot for the medical establishment and which side of history will you be on?

How to design better societies

How to identify issues in society and how can you make a difference

How fast is the world changing, and what can you do to thrive in it?

How to look at trade-offs while making decisions in life or at work?

Why going with the flow is not going with the Flow

Why the best predictor to well-being is not optimism

Dharmic decentralization

What can we learn from jellyfish, fungi, and Will Smith on how to avoid making costly mistakes ?

What Plato got wrong about human nature, and what would Charlie Chaplin do?

Can emotions be overridden by rationality?

When to abort personal missions

How do we pull ourselves out of mistakes, no matter how long we’ve made them for?

Grok, can you?

Beyond boulevard cathexis