I first dismissed Aristotle as "probably not that interesting" until I read him in a college philosophy class. He blew me away.

1 that immediately resonated with me was virtue ethics. appreciate my good friend Lorenzo's newsletter surfacing it this morning in his newsletter. 1st time i've seen it

Very captured and nerd sniped by this chart via @tedgioia.bsky.social and @andrewchen.skystack.xyz about the transition from slow to fast culture.
Are there examples of culture that rebuke this? Are there any arguments that this is good thing that go beyond "we're just giving people what they want"?

There's a study (linked in comments) released yesterday, that's making waves among technology and mental health researchers.

The study followed over 10,000(!) 12-year old children and sought to understand the impact of smartphone ownership on their health outcomes...

Are the stories you tell yourself helping or hurting?

Stories intensely affect beliefs, behaviors, & sense of meaning. They're great allies but terrible enemies. What's shaping your life? What are you ready to let go?

I wrote an exploration piece on narrative's affect on meaning:

i was playing around with some WebGL stuff. Made our site a little more dreamy and whimsical after feedback from some that it was a little scary at 1st.

dreamy and whimsical is the direction we want to go anyways. now it has fluid animations :)

excerpt from one my interviews back in circa~~2019

was my first piece of public writing in about a decade

https://www.netproject.org/blog/escape-the-emptiness

what’s up bluesky friends. excited to be hear where elon can’t ban my writing. I shared my first substack post the day before the twitter ban. if you wanna see my writing, I’m at thepeoplesphilosopher.substack.com