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Deep Life Notes
Thoughts and observations on living deliberately in modern life.
Deep Life Notes is an ongoing collection of thoughts and observations on living deliberately in modern life.
Drawing from psychology, philosophy, history, technology, and everyday experience and reflection, these pieces explore work, craft, attention, identity, change, ageing, meaning, and living well in a modern world.
Deep Life Notes is currently being revised and refined. Some older entries are being updated into a clearer, more consistent format.
Why Pessimism Sounds Smarter
Pessimism often sounds serious and useful, while optimism can sound naïve. That doesn’t mean pessimism sees the world more clearly.
The Four Virtues
Stoicism and its four virtues of Courage, Temperance, Justice and Wisdom still have something to teach us when the world feels too simplified and too much.
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We have become very good at preparing people for work, and very bad at preparing them for life.