Oh, yeah, also postmodernity, the failure of elite universities, EA/FTX & Sam Bankman-Fried, Elon Musk & hubris, meritocracy & institutional change, Nietzsche’s master-slave morality, Tolkien’s models of nobility, Vajrayana Buddhism’s life-affirming approach, software engineers eating the world...

🆕🎙️ New podcast with Charlie Awbery!

An unexpected question, and then we work out an answer together. meaningness.substack.com/p/whats-the-...

🆕 Strategies and tactics for overcoming the typical emotional and relationship difficulties faced by software engineers and other STEM-ish people! meaningness.substack.com/p/leveraging...

🆕 📺 New video!

Nobility is not moral virtue. They are not in conflict; they may correlate, but they don't always coincide.
Nobility is the proper matter of politics.
meaningness.substack.com/p/nobility-a...

🆕📺 Me teaching Vajrayana yidam practice ("being Buddha on the spot") with my spouse Charlie Awbery. And, we are leading a retreat together in July! meaningness.substack.com/p/buddha-on-...

🆕 Mixing my personal history, a history of the technology, and recommendations: keyboards—and their computers—great, good, and bad, from 1873 to the present! meaningness.substack.com/p/my-life-in...

🆕🎙️ New video/podcast episode!

What is learning math good for? — Robert Kegan and “meaning-making” — Existentialism’s error — Narcissism and tyranny — How can we avoid radical relativism? — My experience of teaching

meaningness.substack.com/p/the-incomp...

🆕 👁️ New video post!

"Painting Cthulhu’s third eye on the walls of our mathematics and science departments"

With transcript and illustrations in the web version. t.co/24EGPpOTwE

🆕 New post in the "Undoing philosophy" series.

"I don't do philosophy!", I say.

"Yes you do!" everyone says.

meaningness.substack.com/p/philosophy...

🆕 meaningness.substack.com/p/undoing-ph...

Silver mine entrance abandoned 1940s. Catalpa blooming

Not clear which of these count as weeds