Meaningful Life

LLMs are not collaborators but more like role-playing tools to help you choose your own adventure.

AI transparency is essential for maintaining our human sense of trust. But the current state of AI is more about distrust.

Does generative AI genuinely foster understanding for human users? You might be surprised at what lurks underneath its responses to humans.

Working persistently towards goals might be keeping you from making friends. Heading this problem off requires knowing how goals work.

Technology can slowly erode our basic human capabilities. Technological incapacitation is real but can be easily diagnosed and remedied.

Trying to be happy is often the cause of anxiety and unhappiness. For existentialism, this is because we're approaching it the wrong way.

Anxiety about belonging is a real problem, especially with social media. Not to fret, existentialism can help with easy practical steps.

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?

Existentialism can help to remedy biases and find purpose in life. Three easy steps: bracketing, discovering, being.

Most people suffer from some form of impostor syndrome. It's not easy to overcome, but philosophy can help with self-belief and practice.

What is the purpose of best practices? It's often effectiveness about achieving specific ends. But is this really best for us?

The question of the meaning of life is not asking what you think is. Answering the question involves a circular type of investigation.

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

The political notion of self-sufficiency that often informs aggressive claims to individual rights is more problematic than at first glance.

Virtues are often linked to being ethical as opposed to happiness. But they're actually central to living a happy life.

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

What is authenticity? Is it even possible given how much we are influenced by others? Perhaps there is a simple way to be oneself.

Hope is not wishful thinking. When understood as a virtue, hope involves a lot of practice and, believe it or not, doubt!

With the world in a terminal state of uncertainty, it’s understandable why people may feel adrift and feel powerless.

The difficulty about hard conversations is not the inability to compromise, but the biases and assumptions we hold from the start.