Read time: ~12 min. Also available as a shorter essay on Medium and a 7-minute video on YouTube . The companion journal — The Door Audit — is available if this lands.
The Danish philosopher who saw your panic attack coming before electricity did.
Why this matters now: Anxiety diagnoses in adults under 35 have climbed for fifteen consecutive years — and most of what we’re selling as treatment is repackaged 19th-century philosophy.… Read the rest “Kierkegaard Named Your Anxiety in 1844. Wellness Coaches Now Charge $200/Hour to Repeat It.”
Read time: ~12 min. Also available as a shorter essay on Medium and a 7-minute video on YouTube . The companion journal — The Door Audit — is available if this lands.
The Danish philosopher who saw your panic attack coming before electricity did.
Why this matters now: Anxiety diagnoses in adults under 35 have climbed for fifteen consecutive years — and most of what we’re selling as treatment is repackaged 19th-century philosophy.… Read the rest “Kierkegaard Named Your Anxiety in 1844. Wellness Coaches Now Charge $200/Hour to Repeat It.”
Last week, someone left a passive-aggressive comment on something I’d posted online.
It wasn’t even mean. It was that worse, smaller thing — a polite “actually…” that implied I had no idea what I was talking about. My chest got tight. … Read the rest “You’re Not Anxious. You’ve Been Trained to Absorb Everyone Else’s Stress.”
Reading time: ~12 minutes
VIDEO
In 1990, a Stanford PhD student named Elizabeth Newton ran an experiment that should have permanently humbled every smart person on the internet.
She had volunteers tap out the rhythm of well-known songs on a table — Happy Birthday , The Star-Spangled Banner , songs everyone knows.… Read the rest “Why Your Best Ideas Keep Dying in the Feed — And the Cognitive Trap Behind It”
Reading time: ~12 minutes
VIDEO
In 1990, a Stanford PhD student named Elizabeth Newton ran an experiment that should have permanently humbled every smart person on the internet.
She had volunteers tap out the rhythm of well-known songs on a table — Happy Birthday , The Star-Spangled Banner , songs everyone knows.… Read the rest “Why Your Best Ideas Keep Dying in the Feed — And the Cognitive Trap Behind It”
The fastest way to improve a system isn’t adding the right thing. It’s removing the wrong one. This is the core principle of via negativa
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, the company was forty days from bankruptcy. … Read the rest “Via Negativa: The Ancient Mental Model That Cures Modern Distraction”
You are aging right now. The question is how fast.
Not in the poetic, philosophical sense — in the measurable, testable, reversible sense. Your DNA methylation patterns are shifting as you read this. The speed at which they shift is now something you can track, modify, and reduce across a structured 90-day window.… Read the rest “The Longevity Protocol Tracking Template: A 90-Day Self-Experiment Framework for Epigenetic Age”
