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Stoic Environmentalism

Stoic Environmentalism

I dipped my toe into Stoic Week again this year. I’ve done it before a decade ago, and even went to StoicCon once! I was hoping to find the…
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On Burnout: “Can” is the New “Should”

On Burnout: “Can” is the New “Should”

I started reading about burnout when I walked away from teaching earlier than expected. Suddenly, I couldn’t bring myself to open that door…
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Embracing Fallibility

Embracing Fallibility

Many of us live in a punitive, carceral type of society that can make it difficult to have compassion for ourselves or others. It’s an era…
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Chomsky’s Interviews

Chomsky’s Interviews

A collection of my notes from films and interviews from Ralph Nader and Yanis Vanoufakis to Wallace Shawn and Contrapoints!
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Sharing the Art of Helping

Sharing the Art of Helping

“A little learning is a dang’rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And…
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A Buddhist Perspective on Addiction: Nothing is Vital

A Buddhist Perspective on Addiction: Nothing is Vital

Now that the hangover from New Year’s Eve is abating for many, and we might be freshly open to some self-improvement, consider a Buddhist…
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End of Exploitation?

End of Exploitation?

In the West, it feels like we have never lived outside of a system of pseudo-feudalism, a time without peasantry, slavery, or the working…
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A Fruitful Exploration of the Core

A Fruitful Exploration of the Core

Maybe there are seeds of potential deep within ourselves, but maybe there’s nothing there but a collection of signals. Regardless the…
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On Identity: Erikson, Freud, and Sartre

On Identity: Erikson, Freud, and Sartre

I recently listened to a podcast of Dr. Louis Cozolino, a neuroscientist and psychoanalyst, discussing what he would teach if he were…
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Changing Perceptions of Autism

Changing Perceptions of Autism

There are a few ideas I’ve seen floating around on social media about people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) having no Theory of Mind…
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On Hearing Others

On Hearing Others

Louis Cozolino’s beautifully written book on neuroscience has an explanation near the end about our necessary interconnectedness.
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Yalom’s Gift

Yalom’s Gift

I recently binge-watched all of Group, a show inspired by a novel by Irvin Yalom, The Schopenhauer Cure. So I revisited Yalom’s non-fiction…
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Can a Slingshot Down This Goliath?

Can a Slingshot Down This Goliath?

I read Andreas Malm’s book, How to Blow Up a Pipeline a few months ago, then watched the movie, and then was reminded of it all again by…
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Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence

Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ, was originally published in 1995 but there’s a more recently…
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On Community

On Community

Can simple actions create and maintain community?
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On Limited Government

On Limited Government

Not a summary of one book, but of the overall trajectory of limited capitalism.
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A Somatic Therapy Approach to Anti-Racism

A Somatic Therapy Approach to Anti-Racism

Resmaa Menakem’s My Grandmother’s Hands came highly recommended for good reason. It can improve how we interact.
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Where is My Mind? On Freud and Neuropsychology

Where is My Mind? On Freud and Neuropsychology

Freud got some things right, and this isn’t a post to slam him. But he understood the whole concept of the unconscious mind upside-down…
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Maté: Part Depth Psychology, but Part Questionable Quick Fix

Maté: Part Depth Psychology, but Part Questionable Quick Fix

He received the Order of Canada, profoundly helped many people with addiction on the streets of Vancouver, and is much loved and admired…
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Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning

This is a classic text on psychoanalysis as well as the on ways to find the will to survive the most tragic circumstances.
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Charles Taylor on the Crises of Democracy

Charles Taylor on the Crises of Democracy

A lecture as part of the Civid Freedom in an Age of Diversity program.
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Marie Snyder

Slee’s No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart

On the psychological forces that influence our decisions.
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Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life

Why we continue to waste time, and how to stop!
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John Ralston Saul’s A Fair Country

John Ralston Saul’s A Fair Country

How Canada’s origins continue to set us apart today.
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Sahlberg’s Finnish Lessons

Sahlberg’s Finnish Lessons

Learning from the educational success stories from the Finland.
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