Blogs
Short reflections on living, written the way the framework sees it.
I Know How to Make a Living. I Have No Idea How to Live.
A look at the space between the two, and why most people never notice it.
You Are Not Your Body and That Explains Everything
What changes once the difference between the two becomes clear.
Why You Don't Trust People and Why It's Costing You
Trust breaks down for reasons rarely examined directly.
Happiness Is Not a Feeling You Chase, It Is a Conflict You Resolve
A different way to think about where happiness actually comes from.
Nature Never Competes, We Made That Up
Competition looks natural. It isn't, once looked at closely.
The Four Pillars of Learning We Never Got Taught
Two of the four pillars of education were never taught at all, and it shows.
What Assumptions Are Your Kids Actually Carrying?
Four assumptions children absorb without ever being taught them directly, and why almost nothing challenges them.
Why Value Education Keeps Failing
Most value education fails quietly, for the same handful of reasons, decade after decade.
Why Do You Live? The Question Nobody Asks You Directly
Behind every smaller decision sits one question almost nobody asks directly: why do I actually live?
If You Don't Know Your Destination, How Will You Know You've Arrived?
Working hard toward an unexamined goal produces a very specific kind of exhaustion.
The Four Things Every Human Being Actually Wants
Underneath becoming, doing and acquiring sits a fourth want almost nobody names directly.
The Three Aspects of Living, and Where Your Conflict Actually Comes From
Most people fix the wrong kind of problem, because they never located which of three aspects it actually lives in.
From Incomplete Understanding to Resolution
A rope mistaken for a snake in the dark explains more about unhappiness than it first appears to.
Coexistence: The Four Realities You Cannot Study Separately
Self, relationships, nature and existence resist being worked on as separate projects.
Hearing vs. Listening: Why You Keep Missing the Point
Most disagreements trace back to a word, not a disagreement at all.
The Four-Step Test for Any Belief You Hold
Most beliefs are absorbed, never tested. Here is a four-step way to actually test one.
How to Know If Something Is Naturally Acceptable to You
A wordless, instant reaction usually says more than the justification built after it.
Recognising vs. Assuming: Why the Same Needle Prick Feels Different
The same needle prick feels completely different depending on who's holding it, and why.
Who's Actually in Charge, You or Your Body?
Breathing happens on its own. Getting angry doesn't, and that difference matters more than it seems.
The Self Is the Seer, the Doer, the Experiencer
Nobody has ever heard someone say their liver wants to be treated fairly, so who is it that actually wants things?
Imagination: The One Thing You Never Run Out Of
Unlike everything material, imagination never tires, never depletes, and never runs out.
The Three Ways We Seek Happiness
Sensory pleasure, relationship, and purpose all produce happiness, but only one of them actually lasts.
Six Perspectives That Secretly Run Your Thinking
Six people can look at the same empty plot of land and see six entirely different things.
Why Advertising Works: How Someone Else's Desire Becomes "Yours"
A craving that feels completely personal was often planted there deliberately, by someone else.