A Brief History of Philosophy

A Brief History of Philosophy Contents I. The Western Tradition: From Cosmos to the Self II. The Indian Tradition: The Architecture of Liberation III. The Chinese Tradition: The Art of Living Together IV. The Questions That Braid the Traditions Together V. What the History Teaches VI. Cross-Links The long conversation: the major players of Western […]

The Religiosity Cup

The Religiosity Cup Contents I. What the Vessel Was For II. What Is Worth Drinking The Ethical Core: How to Treat One Another The Contemplative Core: How to Steady the Mind The Meaning and Belonging Core: How to Bear a Life III. Why You Must Not Binge IV. How to Drink Well V. Cross-Links A […]

Language & Meaning

Language & Meaning Contents I. The Water We Swim In Words Carve Up the World Does Your Language Trap Your Thought? When the Problem Is the Words II. Making Sense of It All Where Meaning Comes From The Responses to the Void Building Meaning Deliberately Cross-Links The medium we think in, and the meaning we […]

Philosophy’s Shortcomings

Philosophy’s Shortcomings Contents I. When Reason Floats Free of Reality II. When the Problem Is Made of Words III. The Awkward Question Of Progress IV. The Gap Between Knowing and Doing V. When Thinking Becomes the Trap VI. What Philosophy Is For, Given All This VII. Cross-Links Why thinking, on its own, is never enough. […]

Life Lessons

Life Lessons Contents I. On the Mind II. On Wanting III. On Hardship IV. On Other People V. On Action VI. On Time and Death VII. The Lesson Beneath the Lessons VIII. Cross-Links The distilled wisdom.   Strip away the schools, the jargon, and the arguments, and ask the only question that matters: across thousands […]

Scientific Methodology Cheat Sheet

Scientific Methodology Cheat Sheet Contents I. The Reasoning Core II. What Kind of Study Is It? III. The Bias Catalogue IV. The Numbers: What They Actually Mean V. The Risk and Effect-Measure Decoder VI. Base Rates and Diagnostic Tests VII. How Good Findings Get Manufactured or Spun VIII. The Mind’s Own Errors IX. The Systems-Thinking […]

The Science Rabbit Hole

The Science Rabbit Hole Contents I. Science Is a Tool, Not a Belief System II. Worship the Work, Not the Worker III. Probability, Not Certainty IV. Where Falsification Frays: Popper and Taleb V. The Machinery of Convenient Belief VI. A Playground for Thinking, Not Just a Workshop for Doing VII. The Quantifiability Gradient VIII. At […]

The History of Science

The History of Science Contents I. Before Science: The Sky-Watchers II. The Greek Experiment: Reasons Instead of Gods III. The Long Custodians: How Knowledge Survived IV. The Break: When Looking Beat Authority V. The Invention of the Scientist VI. When the Establishment Was Wrong VII. Why the Establishment’s Caution Is Not Always Villainy VIII. When […]

Understanding Statistics

Understanding Statistics Contents I. Start With the Kind of Study It Is II. The p-value III. Significance Is Not Importance IV. Confidence Intervals V. Sample Size and Power VI. Relative versus Absolute Risk VII. Confounding VIII. How Honest Findings Go Wrong IX. A Field Guide to Reading a Claim X. Cross-Links How to read a […]

The Scientific Method

The Scientific Method Contents I. The Schoolroom Version, and Why It Is Not Quite Right II. The Deep Logic: Disprove, Don’t Prove III. Where Falsification Itself Needs Refining IV. The Engine of Reliability: Controlled Comparison V. The Social Machinery: Why Science Is Bigger Than the Scientist VI. When the Machine Catches Itself: The Replication Crisis […]