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Posts for Deeper Thought

Not product promotion — just the questions worth sitting with a while longer than a scroll usually allows.

Living

What Is Actually Enough?

Not a rhetorical question. An attempt at a real answer, worked out through the writing of Chisoku and the years before it.

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Values

Why We Confuse Being Busy With Being Productive

Busyness feels like proof of something. It rarely is. On the quiet difference between motion and progress.

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Philosophy

What Happens When Success Stops Being the Goal?

A question borrowed, in part, from Daniel Hartman's van and the people he meets along the way.

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Living

Can You Live Simply in a World That Wants You to Want More?

Simplicity isn't the absence of ambition. It's a different definition of what's worth being ambitious about.

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Faith

What Can Stoicism and Christianity Teach Us About Contentment?

Two very different traditions, arriving at a surprisingly similar answer about what's actually within your control.

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Values

Why Our Values Matter

Pieter and Ben have been arguing about this since they were nineteen. The argument, it turns out, is the point.

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Questions

The Difference Between Having Freedom and Knowing What to Do With It

Freedom without direction tends to just become a more comfortable kind of drifting.

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A Quiet Letter

New books, ideas and reflections.

No unnecessary noise. Occasional emails when there's something worth saying.