The Greatest Mind You'll Ever Meet Is Your Own
Why chasing fame and wealth often masks a deeper need — and how self-awareness may be the most ambitious goal a person can pursue.
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Seminar Argued About a Comma for Forty Minutes
Forty minutes on a comma in a translation. Someone cried. Not me. Almost me. Academia treats minutiae like cosmos. I love it and want to flee simultaneously....
Read Heidegger on the Delayed Train
S-Bahn delayed. I read Being and Time. The commuter next to me played TikTok without headphones. Being-in-the-world includes suffering. I wrote three pages i...
Heidegger Would Hate the Train App
I missed my stop again because I was reading about being present in the world while the train app kept notifying me to be present in the world. The irony is...
Two Gods: The Microbiome and the Multiverse
An editorial on the two forces governing human life: the microbiome's material power over mind and body, and the multiverse's infinite field of possibility.
She's Not Wrong About Philosophy
Is philosophy just men explaining their feelings with fancy words? A sharp editorial argues the discipline's claim to objectivity has always been its biggest lie.
The Limits of Language, and Other Reasons I Missed My Stop
A personal essay on Wittgenstein's claim that language limits our world — and why missing your tram stop for a philosophy book is not a waste of time.