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betterment
noun
making or becoming better;
ideology
noun
rituals of thought, feeling, and action;
the science of ideas;
btrmt. is about the ideologies you choose. We are saturated with these rituals of thought, feeling, and action. It's what brains do: map the predictable structure of the world to predictable patterns of thinking and behaving. They are protective—graceful solutions to an impossibly complex world. Yet, they leave us only half awake; following patterns laid for us, not by us. So, the analects are me exploring them. The manifesto details those I've chosen. And my other projects are what I do with them. Your turn.
analects
Analects are a collection of ideas, extracts, or teachings. A funny kind of word that dresses up the sharing of ideologies in a facade of respectability. These are my analects. With a background in brain science and the sciences of mind, I explore how ideas become ideologies become action, for better or worse. Here, you'll find articles, video, and audio.
credenda
The human animal is “half awake. Our fires are damped, our rafts are checked… the human individual lives usually far within his limits”. The old stories we are told teach us that this is the best we can do, halt, lame, half-made creatures that we are. There is another story though. A story that has us waking up; embracing the unique capacity of the human mind. This is a manifesto that tells that story.marginalia
Marginalia is the word for the marks one makes in the margins of books and the like. These Marginalia are my daily notes on interesting content from around the web, or whatever I'm reading right now. A collection of links, quotes, and extracts, with my commentary alongside.
missives
The Missives are the newsletter and the changelog: my notes to you so that you can keep track of what's happened since you were last here. Of course, you can get the newsletter in your inbox too, or get everything in the RSS feed.
curricula
Many of our existing ideologies are filtered through an economy of shame, outrage, yearning, and terror while what narratives of growth we have left are increasingly superficial. The scholastic enterprise has gone a bit funny too: a thousand proliferating disciplines, showering us with knowledge split into a million isolated fragments until "we know more and more about less and less". The curricula are my attempt to make something rather more useful. A collection of heuristics, or frames, through which we make some of the chaos into meaning while accepting that in doing so, we are choosing to make some meaning into chaos.
Today's Marginalia
Curated Pieces
The Latest
Latest Newsletter
Changelog
New article complaining about leadership development consulting.
New article: a brain scientist's model of the magic mushroom experience.