Back in May I argued that we've turned ourselves into projects to be perfected. You asked: but how do you actually live differently? Fair question. So here it is: six months of field notes on what it looks like to stop treating yourself like a machine.
There's a particular kind of person who, when faced with the chaos of the world, reaches instinctively for philosophy. But philosophy can become a double-edged sword.
This essay explores what happened when a communion with sacred mushrooms 🍄🟫 became an unexpected encounter with what the ancients called Sophia—and why I could no longer maintain the split between seeking success in the optimisation machine while hearing something deeper calling 🙌
We are the only species that builds environments hostile to its own nature, then wonders why we feel lost. This is a call to remember the wildness we never truly left behind.
What can a traumatised rescue cat teach us about healing? It turns out, more than most books I’ve read.
Inspired by Dr. Alex Gómez-Marín (Essentia Foundation): attention economies, AI and transhumanist projects are increasingly colonising how we think, decide and relate — threatening cognitive sovereignty and the future of human consciousness.
We live in the age of accumulated wisdom. Ancient texts digitised, philosophical traditions catalogued, psychological insights packaged into consumable frameworks. But wisdom was never meant to be possessed; it was meant to be lived.
We live in a time drowning in data yet starved of wisdom. Over the past year, I’ve explored what wisdom really means, not as theory, but as lived practice. This essay offers a map from selfhood to flourishing, and a way to reclaim what makes us human.
Self-improvement culture tells us to keep grinding, upgrading, performing. But what if the chase for “better” is the very thing wounding us? In this essay, I explore walking off the treadmill of optimisation and into wholeness, a life faithful to itself, not a market.
