Section
Essays
- Jun 2026On the Midjourney whole-body scanner
- Mar 2026Newcombs Paradox as Information Revelation
- Feb 2024On Costs, Words, and the Digital Age
- Jan 2023On Inequality, Happiness, and Our FutureThe exploiters of today do not own slaves; they employ and pay them. The exploiters of today do not aim to control the television — they instead put forth appealing new platforms.
- Sep 2022In Defense of Digital WordsThis entire piece — a tribute to the power of digital words — is the creation of an artificial intelligence. I wrote a counter-argument prompt. This was its response, verbatim, in 6 seconds.
- Aug 2022The Difficulty Is the PointHow I came to understand struggle as the cornerstone of my identity.
- Aug 2022Hopelessness KillsFrom that study we now know that hopelessness can kill. Homelessness is a crisis, and it is a crisis that need not exist.
- Feb 2022Who Is God?It seems to me at this moment God is a shield, a protection placed unto the minds of humanity.
- Jan 2022The White Man's Poverty, Pt. 1I grapple with the idea of inequality and the many crevices of human organization its various vestiges can creep into.
- Jan 2022The Shaky Ivory TowerAt some point the ill patient was taken advantage of and medical professionals have stepped far over the sick, in pursuit of treating the same man they have left behind.
- Jan 2022On Virginity, Money, and DemocracyStrength with which a matter can afflict someone is contingent on the meaning they have associated with it. Meaning seems to be the ultimate shield and sword alike.
- Jan 2022Life Is MathsArtem and I distilled life's trajectories down to a singular metaphor that brought us both an enlightenment so brightly visible in his eyes as we uncovered it.
- Sep 2021On the Origin of RacialismI argue that an early form of modern racism — a pre-racism — was common and prevalent in the Graeco-Roman world, and that this pre-racism gave rise to the beginning of modern racism through the eighteenth century.
- Sep 2021On RhetoricRhetoric is the medium of purpose. It surrounds us at all times, and we cannot live without it.
- Sep 2021Gnōthi SautonTo know thyself is just as easily understood as a call to become aware of one's limits — a reminder that you are mortal, and far from divine.
- Sep 2021The Tolerance ParadoxThe tolerant must not tolerate the intolerant; that is the true test of a democratic society.
- Jan 2021Solipsism is the Word I Thought OfWhen you have made house everywhere and nowhere, your only certain home becomes yourself.
- Jan 2021An Unfinished Letter to FarisFor someone who usually knows exactly what they want to say to people, I'll admit I don't know where to begin with you.
- Aug 2020What If They're Not Wrong?The simple question of 'What if they're not wrong?' has proved to be so immensely powerful I feel as though I could write an entire book on it.
- Jun 2020On PolicingWe do not need police as it exists today. The issue is that the average person has a far greater expectation of liberty today.
- Jun 2020Tolerance, a ReflectionI have vague memories of learning about it. The very first time I was taught the word I was made to associate it with a concept I was only somewhat familiar with.
- Mar 2015On UtopiasUtopias are possible but their rarity is mimicked by the rarity of planets hosting life, of which we know only one: Earth.