David Chapman
@meaningness.bsky.social
I write and podcast at https://meaningness.substack.com/ about:
* Understanding meaning, purpose, and culture
* Leveling up technical work by going beyond formal rationality
* Vajrayana: the life-affirming branch of Buddhism
* Understanding meaning, purpose, and culture
* Leveling up technical work by going beyond formal rationality
* Vajrayana: the life-affirming branch of Buddhism
Reposted by David Chapman
Insightful piece about this: benansell.substack.com/p/fadfo
FADFO - By Ben Ansell
A lot of people have a 'need for chaos', as long as there's no chaos
askwhocastsai.substack.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Insightful piece about this: benansell.substack.com/p/fadfo
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...
July 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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...
I don't (offhand) know of any other small-molecule drug that hangs around for six months doing its thing. Would be interesting to read about how that works. (Although apparently not interesting enough to motivate me to spend more than ten minutes trying to find out!)
June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I don't (offhand) know of any other small-molecule drug that hangs around for six months doing its thing. Would be interesting to read about how that works. (Although apparently not interesting enough to motivate me to spend more than ten minutes trying to find out!)
Reposted by David Chapman
This essay is about the *teachable* "systematic" part, which is failing in Western Civilization despite being load bearing. If we lack systematically noble/benevolent/good leaders, the future for humans is very dark.
🆕 Nobility is the wise and just use of power. What counts as noble? How did nobility become a myth? What have we lost as a consequence? How will we recover it? meaningness.substack.com/p/ofermod
Ofermōd
Building a bridge across postmodern nihilism to nobility
meaningness.substack.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This essay is about the *teachable* "systematic" part, which is failing in Western Civilization despite being load bearing. If we lack systematically noble/benevolent/good leaders, the future for humans is very dark.
Kickstarter isn't a good model for "I produce essays at irregular intervals, but typically a few a month."
I actually spent quite a lot of time figuring out what sort of payment model would be optimal for me (and probably quite a few others) and seriously thought about building it. But...
I actually spent quite a lot of time figuring out what sort of payment model would be optimal for me (and probably quite a few others) and seriously thought about building it. But...
May 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Kickstarter isn't a good model for "I produce essays at irregular intervals, but typically a few a month."
I actually spent quite a lot of time figuring out what sort of payment model would be optimal for me (and probably quite a few others) and seriously thought about building it. But...
I actually spent quite a lot of time figuring out what sort of payment model would be optimal for me (and probably quite a few others) and seriously thought about building it. But...
Thank you! I actually want to get paid to do what I want to do, though :)
May 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Thank you! I actually want to get paid to do what I want to do, though :)