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Interlude: small deaths

Death can only be experienced by the living

Interlude: coffee with milk

Things that happen when one ruins coffee with milk

Interlude: wrinkles and creases

There are different kinds of creases times leaves with its passage: external and internal

the revolution will not be technological

This essay continues the exploration begun in “The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized,” examining how artificial intelligence completes the circuit of individualization by eliminating even the need for another human to tell us the problem lies within ourselves.

self-help and aerobics: a pseudo-scientific method for detecting snake oil

Next time someone tries to sell you wisdom, ask: Would this make sense if shouted while doing burpees? If yes, run. I call it the aerobics test: an infallible method for detecting intellectual charlatanism. Because philosophy that works at 160bpm probably isn't philosophy at all.

A summer of useful-useless readings

Some books choose you rather than the other way around. This summer, five books found their way to me, each exploring—in its own peculiar way—the paradox of useful uselessness that has become my desideratum.