2025. The year we get our shit together. The art of getting one’s shit together should not be underestimated. It tastes better than that donut you want to eat, it enlivens more than the Netflix show you want to stream, and it has greater meaning than the next thing you are pulled to scroll on the screen.| lessfoolish.substack.com
I wrote an entry last week called “How to Win Friends and Get Things Done ... With Wisdom?”, wherein I created the following 2×2.| lessfoolish.substack.com
One of my friends likes to call me “jazzy” because of my eclectic intellectual interests. I like the description. This Substack is pretty jazzy—sexbots, sociopaths, scenemaking, entities, goofies, etc.| lessfoolish.substack.com
I get asked often: “What is The Stoa?”| lessfoolish.substack.com
Warning: A potential metaphysical shock ahead.| lessfoolish.substack.com
On their press junket, Wicked actresses Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande appeared confused and performatively moved when their interviewer told them that people were “holding space” for the lyrics of the song “Defying Gravity.”| lessfoolish.substack.com
This is a 4,400-word guide to help men respond—not react—to the potential for needless debate, petty status dynamics, and physical violence found in social fields where men with a certain threshold of testosterone gather.| lessfoolish.substack.com
This essay is over 5,500 words and contains commentary on Tony Robbins’ “Unleash the Power Within” workshop, along with brief visual references used to illustrate the experience.| lessfoolish.substack.com
A common fallacy committed by life coaches, self-help gurus, and multi-level marketers—though not explicitly stated, yet indirectly expressed—goes like this:| lessfoolish.substack.com
This “person” is a deepfake…| lessfoolish.substack.com
I am going to write a book expanding on the article “Based Definitions: A Philosophical Practice.” It was one of my favorite entries, and I believe more people would benefit from engaging with it.| lessfoolish.substack.com
There's a certain magic as the spring equinox approaches.| lessfoolish.substack.com
This entry is part of a five-part series on “terrible communities”: 1.| lessfoolish.substack.com
This entry is part of a five-part series on “terrible communities”: 1.| lessfoolish.substack.com
I used to read a lot of "self-help" books and blogs.| lessfoolish.substack.com
"A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading."| lessfoolish.substack.com
People do not know how to disagree well.| lessfoolish.substack.com
I have been getting positive feedback on my five-part series on "terrible communities," with people privately thanking me for clarifying problematic characters in their communities and we-space practitioners telling me they are changing their curriculums to avoid the failure modes the series outlined.| lessfoolish.substack.com
