• Life M
    • good but not famous
    • modest money
    • probably have a wife
    • hobnob with fellows
    • nice pleasant life
    • die at age 77 or so
    • a secular one
    • story ends, full stop, with physical death
  • Life A
    • austerity
    • alienation
    • disconnection
    • hard work
    • solitude
    • singleness
    • struggle
    • awakeness
aug 11 2022 ∞
aug 11 2022 +
  • Altruism
    • concern for other sentient beings
    • a larger moral circle is better than a smaller one
    • components:
      • other-orientation / relative lack of self-focus
          • (curiosity is an intellectual version of this)
      • hope
          • a fusing of something like optimism and openness to evidence, a kind of trust
      • personal connection with reality
jul 13 2020 ∞
jul 13 2020 +
  • The critics say: "Scattered and disjointed".
  • I have written novels, diaristic autobiographical books, a hard to classify book about how we can love, a philosophical sitcom, and short philosophical booklets.
  • You can learn more at 10v24.net. There are free things there.
  • Also have a blog that is supposedly about "formulalessness".
  • Some of my novels are kind of like The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot in their form and could be called poems.
  • Things I come back to:
    • the desert experience
    • geography
    • San Diego
    • trust
    • trustworthiness
    • meaning
    • humor
    • horror
jul 20 2019 ∞
feb 20 2024 +
  • Testament
  • Wit
  • Millennium Actress
jul 20 2019 ∞
jan 21 2024 +
  • Testament
  • Wit
  • Stranger Than Fiction
jul 20 2019 ∞
jul 20 2019 +