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2023-03-12 Comments on Dao #3 (governance by sages) [video]
2023-03-09 Comments on Dao #2 (on moderation and the Delphic maxims) [video]
2023-03-06 Comments on Dao #1 (Cosmos, Logos, Tropos) [video]
2023-02-21 Productivity, honesty, and accountability structures [video]
2023-02-11 Comfort zone and impostor feelings (in the snow) [video]
2023-01-09 On hedonism and presence [video]
2022-12-09 Yin-Yang, Dao, and “dragons” [video]
2022-11-04 On dignity [video]
2022-11-02 On the meaning and purpose of life [video]
2022-10-31 About “sorry for being a burden” [video]
2022-10-27 On discipline and self-restraint [video]
2022-10-25 On forgiveness and hubris [video]
2022-10-21 On self-improvement [video]
2022-10-17 Loss, entitlement, and presence [video]
2022-10-14 Showing off, demonstration, and overthinking (feat Chantara Waterfall) [video]
2022-10-13 Practicality, honesty, and patience [video]
2022-10-11 Video games, individuality, and tolerance [video]
2022-10-09 On self-importance and elitism [video]
2022-10-07 On meditation, walking, and acceptance [video]
2022-09-30 Being breakable and taking it slow [video]
2022-09-28 The fully fledged human being [video]
2022-09-26 The fast-paced life and magical solutions [video]
2022-09-24 Allegory of the large dog
2022-09-22 Harmony, tranquillity, non-ownership [video]
2022-09-18 On thinking, living, acting [video]
2022-09-16 False binaries and the continuum [video]
2022-09-15 Perfectionism, insecurity, and improvisation [video]
2022-09-09 The private and the political [video]
2022-09-04 No land for you
2022-08-30 The presumptive idol of you [video]
2022-08-25 On insecurity, confidence, and aloofness [video]
2022-08-07 Who can be a philosopher [video]
2022-06-25 On learning and being present [video]
2022-05-31 On selfhood [video]
2022-05-03 Expectations, rules, and role-playing [video]
2022-02-21 Conventions, relativism, and cosmopolitanism [video]
2022-02-16 Ataraxia, moderation, and mysticism [video]
2022-02-05 Cosmos, Logos, and the living universe [video]
2022-01-31 Notes on the constitution of the case
2022-01-16 Why it is not yours
2021-12-23 Why you should not worry
2021-11-12 Why it is not only your fault
2021-09-20 Why I learnt to let go
2021-08-28 Why you are not important
2021-08-03 Why it is not just about you
2021-07-19 On walking (away)
2021-07-10 Comments on Epictetus' “Enchiridion”
2021-07-08 Why you can't upset me
2021-06-20 Why I won't compete with you
2021-06-16 Why I won't date you
2021-06-15 Why I won't join your club
2021-06-05 Why I never call you
2021-05-07 On Discipline
2021-04-28 Notes on Science and Scientism [book]
2021-04-15 On role and actuality
2021-04-03 On non-Being and the prime mover
2021-03-14 On individuality and partiality
2020-12-20 On materiality and emergence
2020-09-30 The Dialectician’s Ethos
2020-08-10 On the nature-convention divide
2020-07-23 Fables on Systems [book]
2020-07-01 Notes on Rules [book]
2020-02-29 On nihilism, scepticism, absolutism
2019-11-21 On Nihilism
2019-11-20 On Hubris [book]
2019-07-02 Prot's Dots For Debian [book]
2019-06-22 Notes on simplicity
2019-04-23 Notes on object and environment properties
2018-10-21 Ecosystem: definitions and problems
2018-09-28 Scepticism as a type of certitude
2018-08-21 On Human Self Worth [book]
2018-03-29 Structured Text on Sovereignty, Nationhood, Statehood [book]
2017-08-11 Prolegomena to a study of Metaethics
2017-07-26 Notes on the modes of Scepticism
2017-07-01 Dialogues on EU politics [book]
2016-11-14 Essays on Sovereignty [book]
2016-05-09 Little Guide to the European Union [book]
2015-11-08 A Handbook on the European Union [book]
2013-11-27 Notes on the Thinkable