Thirdness To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness. —Alfred Korzybski What is a word? It seems straightforward: a sound or written symbol that stands for something else and conveys meaning. And …
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I recently published an essay about the dynamics of generosity. If you’re short on time, the gist of it is that generosity acts as a kind of supervirtue, spreading and sparing literal energy within a system (like a family, congregation, …
Secondness Imagine you were born each day with no memory. I don’t mean amnesia. Even a person with memory loss retains more than we realize. You forget a name, or a face, but you know a human from a wolf …
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I don’t like writing book reviews. Instead, I prefer to think aloud about a handful of interesting questions that a book raises. This essay was inspired by Tools for Conviviality, by Ivan Illich. We can understand something of a society’s …
