7 for Sunday

Today, 7 rhetorical questions for Sunday… What is necessary for something to continue existing?Is autonomy necessary?Is physical integrity (as opposed to “physical dispersion”) necessary?Does dignity require privacy, which requires autonomy and physical integrity? Privacy is the key that unlocks the aspects of yourself that are most intimate and personal, that make you most you, and…

I write a lot about “looking back”. (A lot: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 21 more posts, plus “look_ing_ back” has another 17 posts.) I clearly believe—I really do—that looking back is best for assessing things. And yet… stress, unhappiness. (Important: Words left unsaid.) By all objective metrics, I’m as successful today as I could hope to be a decade ago. I’m happily married, well inside…

Aeon has been one of the better things I’ve recently found scattered upon the Internet. It’s not new; It’s new to me. One of my super-powers isn’t actually a super-power. It’s a piece of software that I wrote. Take a look at Aeon and imagine if, somehow, every day you were offered a couple of…

I like Carl Sagan’s point about humans being able to work magic. (I’ll pause here while you read the quote.) Writing enables us to transmit ideas across time and space directly into others’ minds; It’s a natural and obvious development once we had language and storytelling. I am so far, endlessly fascinated by that. My soul…