PinnedRichard GreydanusA Personal Project — 3. The PointWhat’s the point of all this intellectual reflection? Why argue that thinking is better done seated in a plush chair in a coffeeshop than…May 8, 2022May 8, 2022
PinnedRichard GreydanusA Personal Project — The TheoryHere I want to give the story I told about my failure to complete a PhD in which I explored what I believe was one of the contributing…May 6, 2022May 6, 2022
PinnedRichard GreydanusA Personal Project — 1. The BackgroundSome years ago I abandoned a humanities PhD program for lack of will to continue. I believed in the project that I was working on at the…May 4, 2022May 4, 2022
Richard Greydanusafter Zoloft: a retrospective on my mental health (pt. 4)I have a distant memory of describing my frustrations with being unable to develop meaningful friendships to my mother. My peers seemed…Dec 3, 2022Dec 3, 2022
Richard Greydanusafter Zoloft: a retrospective on my mental health (pt. 3)I dimly remember the analog world, before the internet, smartphones, and social media. Information about the wider world came through the…Nov 29, 2022Nov 29, 2022
Richard Greydanusafter Zoloft: a retrospective on my mental health (pt. 2)It’s even worse than I initially represented. I enrolled in a Religious Studies Ph.D., a degree at the bottom of the list of marketable…Nov 26, 2022Nov 26, 2022
Richard Greydanusafter Zoloft: a retrospective on my mental health (pt. 1)This is a retrospective on various parts of my life after spending a few months on the SSRI uptake inhibitor Zoloft. So many things, which…Nov 26, 2022Nov 26, 2022
Richard GreydanusExistence Itself is PersonalThis is the third and final post reflecting on the idea of God. In the first post, which can be read here, I argued that the idea of God is…Jun 19, 2022Jun 19, 2022
Richard GreydanusThe Value Proposition of Upland.meSomething is worth as much as another person will pay for it, which is doubly true in the case of many of the so-called Web3 products…Jun 11, 2022Jun 11, 2022
Richard GreydanusBright Prospects for Upland.meA few months after COVID-19 came to North America, I went looking for a blockchain game that would allow me to “play-to-earn”. Some game…Jun 10, 2022Jun 10, 2022