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 …
Firstness We experience the world through an act of imagination. It’s real, of course. If I look over a landscape, there is something “out there,” beyond me. But that’s not what I experience. Tree, grass, river, and mountain are words—categories. …
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I chose to release Chronicles of the Ancient Sea Kings with different cover art for the paperback/ebook and hardback editions. That’s a bad idea for a lot of reasons. The branding is confused and less-recognizable to an audience. Readers may …
When I was a kid, I always hated the expression that cropped up for about a month every year. Is that so? Great, then give me my presents, you can thank me later. Wise Men come bearing gifts, and children …
Introduction, Part 1 The Problem With (Just) Thinking The promise of thinking for yourself is enticing. It sounds something like blasting a hole in a prison wall and storming out into a world of freedom and possibility. But we’ve seen …
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A series of posts about the ability to think for yourself, and much more.
When I first got wind of the term “virtue signaling,” it was as though I suddenly found a word that had been on the tip of my tongue for years. There were people, they were saying things that were annoying, …
My debut novel, Chronicles of the Ancient Sea Kings, is now available for purchase. It’s the first book in a fantasy fiction series, and you can find the blurb here. Plot aside, I hope to give potential readers a better …
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This is an installment in an irregular series of quick meditations on what I’m calling the “personal economy,” inspired by E.F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful. Prior to World War II, the Chinese government calculated that it took the equivalent of 30 peasants’ annual …
This is an installment in an irregular series of quick meditations on what I’m calling the “personal economy,” inspired by E.F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful. Schumacher uses the term “footlooseness” to describe the ability of people to relocate freely within …
