Goodbye After a year of sharing my research and reflections, I've come to realize that my work isn't meant to live in this form. This isn't a sudden decisions. It's a recognition of something I felt for a long time. Depth is rare
Learning to Run on My Own Fire A field-note on quitting coffee & sugar, plus a 90-second ritual for the crash I stopped drinking coffee the way you leave a city you once loved: no drama, just a quiet suitcase and the sense that the skyline had begun to speak too loud. The first three mornings felt
The Fifth Joint Point: When Justification Sees Itself Response to Mind & Mythos: Psychology Finally Has a Unifying Framework Gregg Henriques' Unified Theory of Knowledge is a magnificent scaffolding, a rare attempt to describe the entire staircase of evolution rather than just a single step. Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support
Childlessness as Evolutionary Feedback: Why Declining Fertility Is Not a Crisis, but a Mirror Every few months, a new headline laments the "fertility crisis." Commentators warn that civilization is collapsing because women are having fewer children. Charts of falling birth rates are presented as proof that society has lost its vitality. But the story is older. And far deeper, than any moral
Culture as the Nervous System of Death: How Fear Becomes Meaning The Quiet Core: Life's First Reflex At the base of everything living lies as single instruction: persist. Cells fight entropy not because they "want" to, but because the flows of chemistry that maintain them cannot do otherwise. They eat sunlight, minerals, and each other to postpone
The Roman Pattern: How Civilizations Collapse Like Living Systems Introduction: "I see Rome everywhere." Lately, I've been reading The Fate of Rome. Every page feels strangely familiar, as if I'm watching the slow replay of our age through another body. It's not just history. It's anatomy. Rome was once
The Pattern of Life: A Field That Learns Itself Life isn't a thing but a maintained process in open systems. Order arises far from equilibrium via energy flow and constraint. Biology writes information into matter and uses feedback and prediction to persist. Culture scales coordination through stories that can calcify, then reset. This essay keeps the poetry