Psychologist with clinical background. Co-founded Way Beyond. His work bridges psychology and organizational development, centered on meaningful conversation as the key to human transformation.
There are different kinds of creases times leaves with its passage: external and internal
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.
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.
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.
Starting this newsletter in February was supposed to be an exercise in coherent uselessness. Instead, it opened doors to conversations I never imagined having—including my first podcast in English, where I could finally articulate why our desperate need for certainty is the pathology of our time.
Not knowing has become banned proscribed