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
Arrested-developed masculinity. It’s a hell of a drug.| lessfoolish.substack.com
I get asked often: “What is The Stoa?”| lessfoolish.substack.com
The Pull is the subtle, unconscious force that draws you into the screen. I am writing this series as a practical guide to overcoming it for good—before it’s too late. In this entry, I’ll discuss the high-level roadmap needed.| lessfoolish.substack.com
Thus far in this series—a guide to overcoming The Pull for good—we’ve covered the following:| lessfoolish.substack.com
It no longer feels like we are in a culture war but rather a spiritual one—an “unseen war,” as my Orthodox brothers and sisters call it. For secular-minded readers, an unseen war can be understood as a conflict in which one force seeks to capture attention and pull it away from what is most important—a.k.a., what’s most sacred.| lessfoolish.substack.com
“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.” - Orange Catholic Bible| 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
There are some people you should read if you're interested in the spiritual dangers emerging with AI and what some call “The Machine”—a self-perpetuating force, socially framed as technological progress, that has a “direction of travel” toward replacing nature with technology, eliminating tradition, and ushering in a post-human world.| lessfoolish.substack.com
Its physical source is the screen, whether on a phone or computer. Its digital source comes from email, messaging apps, or social media. Its emotional source comes from various unspoken social expectations, FOMO, and an existential loneliness stemming from a lack of belonging and “feeling seen” outside the screen.| lessfoolish.substack.com