Usually, I take at least a day or two to make purchasing decisions but I could not wait to pay for a full-year subscription to Escaping Flatland. The singularity and thoughtfulness of your writing are clear as daylight. Hoping 2025 is equally stable, productive and richer in depth.
Your thinking expressed through your writing on here is singular and has such clarity. Self-help is not a word that ever crossed my mind. I see the deep contemplative thought of a lover of wisdom, i.e., a philosopher, in the truest sense of the word. It seems as though you are living the life of a philosopher and sharing the riches with all of us. Thanks!
If you're interested in a self-help book that's also not really self-help, while being serious and philosophical, I couldn't recommend Don Watkins' "Effective Egoism" highly enough.
“I think, however, it is important to articulate different points of view and experiments in living so people can use that to see a larger slice of the possibility space.”
This is one of the most valuable things you do for me, personally.
I'm curious, do you think of the blog as being fundamentally humanist? Because it occurs to me that your major themes -- human flourishing, sympathy as a basis for ethics, appreciation for beauty -- are the core aspects of humanism.
Usually, I take at least a day or two to make purchasing decisions but I could not wait to pay for a full-year subscription to Escaping Flatland. The singularity and thoughtfulness of your writing are clear as daylight. Hoping 2025 is equally stable, productive and richer in depth.
Your thinking expressed through your writing on here is singular and has such clarity. Self-help is not a word that ever crossed my mind. I see the deep contemplative thought of a lover of wisdom, i.e., a philosopher, in the truest sense of the word. It seems as though you are living the life of a philosopher and sharing the riches with all of us. Thanks!
If you're interested in a self-help book that's also not really self-help, while being serious and philosophical, I couldn't recommend Don Watkins' "Effective Egoism" highly enough.
“I think, however, it is important to articulate different points of view and experiments in living so people can use that to see a larger slice of the possibility space.”
This is one of the most valuable things you do for me, personally.
That is good to hear!
I'm curious, do you think of the blog as being fundamentally humanist? Because it occurs to me that your major themes -- human flourishing, sympathy as a basis for ethics, appreciation for beauty -- are the core aspects of humanism.
you're my inspiration!