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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.
The Overloaded Worker
Work gives us more autonomy than ever, yet too much volume and too much speed can short-circuit the brain.
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.
The Broken Lightbulbs
There is an expectation for us to be doing things. But when we procrastinate, it doesn’t always mean we are being lazy.
Read My Latest Deep Life Reflections Essays
We have become very good at preparing people for work, and very bad at preparing them for life.