Picking Your Battles: The Art of Selective Engagement

Opt Out, Zone In: Part 3

Opting Out of the Outrage Horde

Opt Out, Zone In: Part 2

The Modern Devil is Cheap Dopamine

Opt Out, Zone In: Part 1

On Extremism

0:00 /2:11 1× When someone's already said it perfectly, there's no need to add commentary. Much love, Brandon

An Obvious Addiction - Rage

Addicted - exhibiting a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity. As I wrote in a previous post, one of the goals of for profit media is to make people angry. Angry people stay glued to the screen for longer which leads to more

A Curious Addiction - Excessive Naval Gazing

From merriam-webster dictionary: Navel-gazing(noun): useless or excessive self-contemplation I've spent much of my time over the last 2-5 years navel gazing, particularly since I returned to Denver in January of 2023 after 4 months back in Medellin. I began therapy (which I've done consistently since

On Living to Oneself

I'm borrowing a practice that Sam Torode used in his writing of The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life. It was actually his version of another translation, which he wrote by spending some time every morning reading a piece, pondering it, and explaining it in a

Responsibilities and Priorities

I was recently referred to the same article by both my barber and therapist about dating in Denver being a dumpster fire. Weirdly serendipitous, but I guess they're both the people that you bitch and moan to about this sorta thing. In it, I was introduced to a

We Are All Complicit

Here are a number of statements made by each side about the opposition during the build up to the 2024 election. Read each one and think about which you agree with, and which seem absolutely preposterous: * "(Trump would) ban abortion nationwide, restrict access to birth control and put IVF

What Are You Pretending to Care About Today?

Our collective cultural short term memory is fucked. Causes and crucial issues pop up and hide away like a game of whack-a-mole. With each instance a new cycle of outrage begins, but the end result is the same: nothing changes. If it's not important 3 months from now,

Put It On The Calendar

While conducting a past year review of 2023 I was unable to complete one part of the assignment: to look back at my year and analyze how I spent my time. Which things did I love? Which did I loathe? Which lead to personal growth? And which did I feel

Supporting Men

Much of my thinking about the world is influenced by evolutionary psychology. I’ve previously referred to many of the issues modern people face as existing downstream of the disconnect between the primitive ‘hardware’ our minds function on clashing with the latest ‘software’ the modern world requires our minds to