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Essays exploring where philosophy meets technology, where ancient wisdom illuminates modern questions, and where thinking across disciplines reveals unexpected connections.

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Exploring the intersections of thought and practice

philosophy × wisdom
Nov 13, 2025 18 min read

The Quality of Your _____ Is the Quality of Your Life

Six wisdom traditions—from Socrates to Buddha, Muhammad to Christ—independently discovered the same formula. This essay explores how quality generates reality at every level of engagement: questions, attention, heart, relationship, action, and thought.

philosophy × technology
Oct 13, 2025 14 min read

Plato's Cave 2.0: Training on Shadows

LLMs describe grief they've never felt with uncanny accuracy. For 2,400 years, philosophy insisted you cannot know reality from descriptions alone. Yet AI trained purely on text navigates the world with impossible competence. What does this mean for epistemology—and what do shadows still miss?

philosophy × wisdom × technology
Sep 28, 2025 12 min read

Your Liver Knows Something Your Brain Doesn't

From Prometheus to modern neuroscience, from Arabic etymology to trauma research—discover why every wisdom tradition saw the liver as sacred. Your body's most regenerative organ isn't just filtering toxins, it's metabolizing consciousness itself.

philosophy × psychology × spirituality
Sep 21, 2025 15 min read

The Sacred Deaths of Attention

Three wisdom traditions converge on a startling truth: your scattered attention isn't a bug to fix but a spiritual symptom. Discover why consciousness must undergo three deaths to become truly alive.

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