Archive - Meaningness

Leveraging lag: engineers and salespeople

Accelerating personal development with analogies between domains

Jun 19 •

May 2025

Software engineers are eating the world

In ignorance of nobility.

May 26 •

Nobility: table of contents

Collecting the posts in my “nobility arc” on the wise and just use of power

May 23 •

Building a bridge across postmodern nihilism to nobility

May 13 •

To keep priests in check: prefer nobility to churlishness

When secular authority fails to restrain virtue experts, vice signaling becomes tempting

May 5 •

April 2025

Priests and Kings

The uneasy power balance between two elite classes, justified by virtue and nobility respectively

Apr 30 •

12:49

Nobility and virtue are distinct sorts of goodness

Social, cultural, and political troubles come from subordinating nobility to virtue.

Apr 28 •

7:56

What is stage five (like)?

Describing the experience, rather than theorizing about mental mechanisms

Apr 26 •

35:39

Living beautifully † Cutting hard

The vow to cut un-seeing

Apr 21 •

Stage five is nothing special

Watch now | Meta-systematicity is fascinating and important, but it is no sort of perfection

Apr 19 •

8:53

Fivefold confidence

Watch now | The Evolving Ground invocation liturgy explains prerequisites for successful learning

Apr 17 •

8:31

Watch now | We can live in the actual world, instead of trying to escape to some fantasy land.

Apr 14 •

7:10

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