Philosophy
Introduction to Philosophy
Three deeper sessions on what philosophy is actually for — and the two moves anyone can use, regardless of whether they ever read a philosophy book again.
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Practical Wisdom
Seven days with three modern writers who give three different answers to one question — what a person should actually be working on, given that the future will not hold still.
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Naval Ravikant says work on yourself, because judgment and specific knowledge are the only things that compound. Nassim Taleb says stop working on yourself and work on your exposure, because you will never forecast well enough for it to matter. Viktor Frankl says an interior aimed at itself collapses, and the only stable orientation points outward. These are three genuinely different answers, and each one is right about a different situation. This path takes them one at a time and ends with the diagnostic that tells you which situation you are in.
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Three Answers to One Question
Why three serious people give three incompatible answers to the same question, and what each of them is actually claiming.
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Three Answers to One Question
Why three serious people give three incompatible answers to the same question, and what each of them is actually claiming.
The Knowledge Nobody Could Have Given You
Naval Ravikant's first move — the claim that the only advantage that lasts is the kind that cannot be taught, and that it is found by curiosity rather than by strategy.
When Output Stops Tracking Hours
The four forms of leverage, why two of them stopped requiring anybody's permission, and what that does to the meaning of effort.
Stop Improving the Forecast
Nassim Taleb's answer — that the error is never in the model, and the reliable move is to change what you are standing under rather than what you believe.
The Thing You Cannot Aim At
Viktor Frankl's answer — that meaning is never located inside the person, and that the more directly it is pursued, the more reliably it recedes.
Why Trying Harder Makes It Worse
The clinical half of Frankl's argument — the two failure modes he called hyper-intention and hyper-reflection, and the two techniques he built to break them.
Which Question Are You In?
The three answers as three regimes, the two questions that tell you which one you are standing in, and what it costs to apply the wrong one.
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Stoicism: Foundations
Seven days with the core practices of the Stoics.
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A Slave, an Emperor, and a Courtier
Three ancient lives with almost nothing in common, put in one room — and ten lessons on why anyone believes a text at all.
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