Artificial Intelligence: Choose Your Own Adventure
LLMs are not collaborators but more like role-playing tools to help you choose your own adventure.
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Resources on Meaningful Work & More!
Public Philosophy Blogs for reflecting on how to make work and life align more with your goals.
Nicholas Barrow
Feb 65 min read
Why AI Transparency Is Important
AI transparency is essential for maintaining our human sense of trust. But the current state of AI is more about distrust.
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Anastasia Siapka
Jan 115 min read
AI Explainability: A Primer
Does generative AI genuinely foster understanding for human users? You might be surprised at what lurks underneath its responses to humans.
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Todd Mei
Nov 1, 20236 min read
Why You May Not Have Many Friends
Working persistently towards goals might be keeping you from making friends. Heading this problem off requires knowing how goals work.
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Todd Mei
Sep 8, 202310 min read
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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Todd Mei
Aug 20, 20239 min read
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, 20239 min read
Existential Self-Help 2: 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, 20233 min read
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, 20236 min read
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, 20237 min read
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, 20238 min read
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, 20236 min read
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, 20236 min read
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, 20217 min read
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, 20216 min read
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, 20215 min read
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, 20215 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20205 min read
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, 20205 min read
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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