Philosophy

Tony Soprano was TV's first anti-hero, but the show still has a hero. It's Carmela.

News is the processed food of information, the Doritos of literacy.

"The discovery of the Nazis was that the masses were not so frightened by Jewish world rule as they were interested in how it could be done."

Conspiracy theories, stupid mobs, demagogues, where do you think this all leads?

When your parents die, live in the backyard for three years.

Totalitarianism is, to Hannah Arendt, someone else's dream invading your body, until it becomes a nightmare.

And how it makes us dumb

Governments have no right to hit, cage, or kill us. None.

The way to Acid Communism

The oldest trick in democracy is deciding that certain people aren't people at all

We keep appealing to reason but we're just apes

Tolstoy is the anarchist philosopher poet, trying to make peasants into philosopher kings.

Basecamp's implosion—losing one-third of staff—is about much more than politics. It's a failure of philosophy.

I find myself teaching my children lessons I don't follow as an adult. That we don't follow as a society. We really should.

What it means to live forever, in a Buddhist sense

A wholly inadequate Medium trip through the Dhammapada

A lesson from the Taoist sage Zhuangzi

A perception, a memory, a book

How little things can make you a better person, according to Mengzi (300 BC)

How the sage connects to Computer Science today

Try both. Or many. Try more.

Users are the problem, not publishers

We’re asking the wrong question