Archive - Curiosity > Certainty

#4 - I've had the most fun when I've let myself be excellent at being mediocre

Mediocrity is excellence minus social signaling

Mar 7 •

February 2025

#3 - My relationship with drinking

Most of the choices we make, at the time of making, don’t seem like choices at all.

Feb 21 •

January 2025

#2 - Seeking pleasure

Understanding adult self-scrutiny

Jan 31 •

#1 - A change in direction

Jan 17 •

December 2024

November 2024

# 198 - The case against empathy

And link to my latest longform essay

Nov 29, 2024 •

#197 - Exploring my human iceberg

A conversation about values

Nov 22, 2024 •

#196 - Choice and obligation

Difference between life that happens to you and life that you make happen

Nov 15, 2024 •

#195 - Designing a dream balcony and a fulfilling career: how they’re surprisingly similar

Design principles to avoid career misfit

Nov 8, 2024 •

October 2024

#194 - How come standing your ground feels like just standing to a few and impossible to most?

The difference between the reactive-responsive and creative orientations

Oct 25, 2024 •

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