Is Technological Incapacitation Making You Less Human?
Technology can slowly erode our basic human capabilities. Technological incapacitation is real but can be easily diagnosed and remedied.
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You'll find just about everything you need for reflecting on how to make work and life align more with your goals.
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P2U blogs are all about public philosophy. We not only apply philosophical ideas to better understand issues and questions that matter to work and life, but we also offer accessible discussion and thought-provoking insights.
Todd Mei
- Aug 20
- 9 min
Existential Self-Help 3: Being Happy
Trying to be happy is often the cause of anxiety and unhappiness. For existentialism, this is because we're approaching it the wrong way.
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Todd Mei
- Aug 4
- 9 min
Existential Self-Help II: Getting Over Belonging Anxiety
Anxiety about belonging is a real problem, especially with social media. Not to fret, existentialism can help with easy practical steps.
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Todd Mei
- Jul 17
- 3 min
Does Your Work Life Suffer From Parallax?
When your work suffers from parallax, it means the reasons you're working no longer suit your life goals and purposes. Can this be fixed?
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Todd Mei
- Jul 6
- 6 min
Existential Self-Help 1: Finding Purpose in Life
Existentialism can help to remedy biases and find purpose in life. Three easy steps: bracketing, discovering, being.
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Todd Mei
- May 7
- 7 min
Getting Over Impostor Syndrome
Most people suffer from some form of impostor syndrome. It's not easy to overcome, but philosophy can help with self-belief and practice.
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Todd Mei
- Apr 27
- 8 min
Best Practice: What Can Philosophy Teach Us?
What is the purpose of best practices? It's often effectiveness about achieving specific ends. But is this really best for us?
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Todd Mei
- Feb 5
- 6 min
What Is the Meaning of Life?
The question of the meaning of life is not asking what you think is. Answering the question involves a circular type of investigation.
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Todd Mei
- Feb 1
- 6 min
Hate Your Job But Love Your Leisure?
If you hate your job but put up with it because you can do what you love in your free time, you may be doing more harm than good to yourself
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Todd Mei
- Sep 13, 2021
- 7 min
The Myth of Self-Sufficiency
The political notion of self-sufficiency that often informs aggressive claims to individual rights is more problematic than at first glance.
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Todd Mei
- Jul 19, 2021
- 6 min
Can Being Virtuous Make You Happy?
Virtues are often linked to being ethical as opposed to happiness. But they're actually central to living a happy life.
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Todd Mei
- Jun 1, 2021
- 5 min
Who Needs Virtues Anyway?
What is a virtue? Are virtues important or just old-fashioned ideas about morality? Virtues are in fact key to who we are and what we can do
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Riss Müller
- Mar 14, 2021
- 5 min
The Politics of Authenticity
What is authenticity? Is it even possible given how much we are influenced by others? Perhaps there is a simple way to be oneself.
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Todd Mei
- Jan 20, 2021
- 4 min
On this Inauguration Day: Hope Is a Dangerous Thing
Hope is not wishful thinking. When understood as a virtue, hope involves a lot of practice and, believe it or not, doubt!
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Riss Müller
- Dec 8, 2020
- 5 min
A Theory of Emptiness
With the world in a terminal state of uncertainty, it’s understandable why people may feel adrift and feel powerless.
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Todd Mei
- Jul 2, 2020
- 5 min
Hard Conversations
The difficulty about hard conversations is not the inability to compromise, but the biases and assumptions we hold from the start.
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Guest Author
- Jun 2, 2020
- 5 min
Can Ethical Consumerism Make a Difference?
It's easy to forget that the things we buy are made by humans. Ethical consumerism helps to avail of us of this oblivion.
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Riss Müller
- May 21, 2020
- 4 min
Quarantine, an Existential Perspective: A Self without Others
Our dependency on others is a part of who we are, which means that recognition of others is key to a healthy society.
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Todd Mei
- Apr 4, 2020
- 8 min
Total Exhaustion: On Switching Passions from Climbing to Windsurfing
Total exhaustion is the experience of a fulfilling fatigue from sports. There's nothing quite like it. So what's involved?
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