Essays

• On the Midjourney whole-body scanner
  2026-06-21 · 12 min read
• Newcombs Paradox as Information Revelation
  2026-03-23 · 8 min read
• On Costs, Words, and the Digital Age
  2024-02-21 · 3 min read
• On Inequality, Happiness, and Our Future
  The 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.
  2023-01-15 · 6 min read
• In Defense of Digital Words
  This 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.
  2022-09-01 · 4 min read
• The Difficulty Is the Point
  How I came to understand struggle as the cornerstone of my identity.
  2022-08-25 · 1 min read
• Hopelessness Kills
  From that study we now know that hopelessness can kill. Homelessness is a crisis, and it is a crisis that need not exist.
  2022-08-25 · 5 min read
• Who Is God?
  It seems to me at this moment God is a shield, a protection placed unto the minds of humanity.
  2022-02-17 · 2 min read
• The White Man's Poverty, Pt. 1
  I grapple with the idea of inequality and the many crevices of human organization its various vestiges can creep into.
  2022-01-18 · 3 min read
• The Shaky Ivory Tower
  At 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.
  2022-01-01 · 3 min read
• On Virginity, Money, and Democracy
  Strength 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.
  2022-01-01 · 5 min read
• Life Is Maths
  Artem 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.
  2022-01-01 · 3 min read
• On the Origin of Racialism
  I 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.
  2021-09-29 · 7 min read
• On Rhetoric
  Rhetoric is the medium of purpose. It surrounds us at all times, and we cannot live without it.
  2021-09-29 · 4 min read
• Gnōthi Sauton
  To 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.
  2021-09-29 · 3 min read
• The Tolerance Paradox
  The tolerant must not tolerate the intolerant; that is the true test of a democratic society.
  2021-09-17 · 3 min read
• Solipsism is the Word I Thought Of
  When you have made house everywhere and nowhere, your only certain home becomes yourself.
  2021-01-01 · 4 min read
• An Unfinished Letter to Faris
  For someone who usually knows exactly what they want to say to people, I'll admit I don't know where to begin with you.
  2021-01-01 · 2 min read
• What 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.
  2020-08-16 · 5 min read
• On Policing
  We do not need police as it exists today. The issue is that the average person has a far greater expectation of liberty today.
  2020-06-08 · 6 min read
• Tolerance, a Reflection
  I 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.
  2020-06-04 · 4 min read
• On Utopias
  Utopias are possible but their rarity is mimicked by the rarity of planets hosting life, of which we know only one: Earth.
  2015-03-21 · 6 min read