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
"If you don't have your own psyop, you become part of somebody else's psyop." - Terence McKenna, paraphrased| 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
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
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
Michael Trembly of the Stoa Conversations podcast (no relation to The Stoa) invited me to his podcast because one of his listeners requested he speak with me about my interpretation of Stoicism.| 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
I noticed a difference immediately—a greater sense of peace from day one. It was a spontaneous decision to go on a digital fast: no social media, messengers, or email. My laptop sat on my desk, unopened for two weeks. Camille’s work provides her two weeks off during the holidays, and I wanted to join her, shifting my focus away from the screen.| lessfoolish.substack.com
There's a certain magic as the spring equinox approaches.| lessfoolish.substack.com
This entry is an appendix to my 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
When thinking of what to call my philosophy practice, I did not want to use the word coach.| 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