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Daniel Mostovac

How Love Survived The Nuclear Ashes Of Nagasaki

What I take from Dr Takashi Nagai’s generosity and turn to faith

12 min readDec 24, 2023

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How Love Survived The Nuclear Ashes Of Nagasaki

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Daniel Mostovac

The Crazy Things I Saw At Yasakuni Jinja: A Flashpoint for Sino-Japanese relations

It was my last day in Japan. I’d spent 4 weeks travelling the archipelago, from Nagasaki, through the beautiful hospitality of a Zen monk…

5 min readNov 7, 2023

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The Crazy Things I Saw At Yasakuni Jinja: A Flashpoint for Sino-Japanese relations

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Daniel Mostovac

How To Move Past Tribal Dynamics And Collaborate On Global Problems Better

Why is it so difficult to co-ordinate a response to existential risks?

5 min readOct 31, 2023

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How To Move Past Tribal Dynamics And Collaborate On Global Problems Better

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Daniel Mostovac

Helpful And Frustrating Definitions of Left And Right

My reading of a counter-terrorism expert’s warnings about the extreme-right

5 min readOct 4, 2023

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Helpful And Frustrating Definitions of Left And Right

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Daniel Mostovac

How We Can Reduce Multiple Catastrophic Risks At Once

This piece explains how problems in the global system have the potential to make all other problems worse. These are the existential risk…

4 min readSep 12, 2023

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How We Can Reduce Multiple Catastrophic Risks At Once

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Daniel Mostovac
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ILLUMINATION

The Post-Tragic Framework: Society’s Three Responses To Rapid Technological Change

Why I’d probably fall for an ideology if I was desperate

7 min readSep 11, 2023

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The Post-Tragic Framework: Society’s Three Responses To Rapid Technological Change

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Daniel Mostovac

Why I Left Teaching And How I Overcome Career Decision-Paralysis

I’ve recently become one of the statistics in the famous “50% of new teachers don’t last 5 years.” Do I feel guilty about this? The short…

6 min readSep 10, 2023

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Why I Left Teaching And How I Overcome Career Decision-Paralysis

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Daniel Mostovac

Are We Gentle Or Violent? The Dalai Lama Weighs In

Are humans basically violent, or gentle? Or is the question misleading, and there are grey areas?

3 min readAug 19, 2023

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Are We Gentle Or Violent? The Dalai Lama Weighs In

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Daniel Mostovac

Distilling 25 years of psychological studies into 2 defences against terror and death

And the two types of immortality people seek

4 min readAug 11, 2023

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Distilling 25 years of psychological studies into 2 defences against terror and death

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The Taoist Online

Why The Dalai Lama Is Never Lonely

The lesson I’m applying from ‘The Art of Happiness’ by Howard C Cutler and the Dalai Lama

3 min readAug 7, 2023

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Why The Dalai Lama Is Never Lonely

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Daniel Mostovac

Daniel Mostovac

Serial learner. Former teacher. Interested in philosophy, belief systems, existential risk, civilisation. BA (hons) history, Italian literature.

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