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What's the connection between gender and meta-rationality?
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Jun 26 • 
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Leveraging lag: engineers and salespeople
Accelerating personal development with analogies between domains
Jun 19 • 
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Software engineers are eating the world
In ignorance of nobility.
May 26 • 
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Nobility: table of contents
Collecting the posts in my “nobility arc” on the wise and just use of power
May 23 • 
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Nobility: table of contents
Ofermōd
Building a bridge across postmodern nihilism to nobility
May 13 • 
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To keep priests in check: prefer nobility to churlishness
When secular authority fails to restrain virtue experts, vice signaling becomes tempting
May 5 • 
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Priests and Kings
The uneasy power balance between two elite classes, justified by virtue and nobility respectively
Apr 30 • 
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7:56
Nobility and virtue are distinct sorts of goodness
Social, cultural, and political troubles come from subordinating nobility to virtue.
Apr 28 • 
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What is stage five (like)?
Describing the experience, rather than theorizing about mental mechanisms
Apr 26 • 
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Living beautifully † Cutting hard
The vow to cut un-seeing
Apr 21 • 
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Stage five is nothing special
Watch now | Meta-systematicity is fascinating and important, but it is no sort of perfection
Apr 19 • 
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Fivefold confidence
Watch now | The Evolving Ground invocation liturgy explains prerequisites for successful learning
Apr 17 • 
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This is it!
Watch now | We can live in the actual world, instead of trying to escape to some fantasy land.
Apr 14 • 
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Rigpa and ethical nihilism
A brief conversation with Varun Godbole about enlightenment in Dzogchen
Apr 11 • 
David Chapman
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Varun Godbole
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