A time of sadness
As life quiets and reflection deepens, clarity may bring difficult questions about career, relationships, and meaning. This sadness isn’t pathological—it’s part of finding your true direction.
Existentialism
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Lostness
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Lost and there: an introduction
What does it mean to be lost? Not just in the woods — but in your life. Search & Rescue literature reveals that lostness isn't simply not knowing where you are. It's the inability to reorient. And that distinction changes everything.
Wisdom from a drum throne
Wisdom from the drum throne: A reflection on resilience, creativity, and self-acceptance inspired by drummers El Estepario Siberiano and Miguel Lamas. Explore lessons on comparison, motivation, and becoming the best version of yourself—on and off the drums.
The problem of causality: the Chinese parable of the wise farmer
Once upon a time there was a Chinese farmer whose horse ran away. That evening, all of his neighbors came around to commiserate. They said, “We are so sorry to hear your horse has run away. This is most unfortunate.” The farmer replied, “Maybe.”
Why? vs Why not?
When we ask the question why, we are inquiring about the causes of things. It is my hypothesis that those of who are neuro-deviant have a special relationship with causality, and I think it has a profound effect on the way we experience our world and the way we spend our metabolic resources.
adhd
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How philosophy can help us to understand adhd: the curious case of Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD)
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) is still not widely known and is even more poorly understood but, in my clinical experience, globally experienced by those of us who have adhd.
Critique
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The future is everything, or how to psychologize with a hammer
As I have worked with clients over these past five years, it has become clear to me that the foundational determinant of well-being is our relation to the (our) future.
Anomie and the cost of the future
Which is heavier, wearing a 25kg backpack and having to walk around with it all day every day or not knowing if you and the people in your life are going to be safe—in whatever way you want to conceptualize "safe"—on a day-to-day basis?
Naming
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Anomie vs depression
What this suggests is that when there are not sufficient rules and laws and conventions, one's imagination is completely ungoverned. And an ungoverned—"fantastic" in Kierkegaard's words—mind ultimately leads one away from oneself... towards the sickness unto death that is despair.
Meme(s) of the week: rats, isolation, pornography, and shopping, also... the meaning(s) of life
The wellbeing or illness of people is a reflection and product of the society in which they live. It’s true for rats, and its true for people.
adhd
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Perfectionism, Part I: The Problem of the Product
Perfectionism causes personal and professional problems for perfectionists themselves and those around them. And, in a bitter twist of irony, it turns out to be an inefficient and ineffective way of producing good work with any consistency.