Writing
Articles, essays, longer-form thoughts — spanning whatever discipline the subject happens to belong to.
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Know your project
We think hard decisions are hard because the options are close. They're hard because we never named what we're choosing for. Name your project — your vocation, the real thing your one life is organised to do — and the question doesn't get answered so much as dissolved, because you finally have a test to run every option against. On indecision as an unclear-criteria problem rather than a shortage of data, telling load-bearing wants from borrowed scripts, optimising for the ordinary Tuesday over the first-day shine, and why the bottomless project of building the self is a house on sand — while meaning is built, slowly, by whoever founds a life on a calling and stays to tend it.
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Education through the posture of discovery
For most of the modern era, education has been front-loaded: cram knowledge in young, then spend it across a career. AI ends that bargain. Why the old model made sense, what AI actually changes when knowledge goes on tap, how learning shifts to discovery — just-in-time, lifelong, organised around questions rather than storage — what becomes scarce (good questions, judgment), and the foundation discovery still needs.
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Boundaries without judgment
Judging others and protecting yourself look alike from the outside and are opposites underneath. On the courtroom we silently convene when we pass a verdict on a soul, judgment as playing God — the subtlest idolatry of self — how to notice the court in session and adjourn it, why a boundary around one's own soul (perhaps the only thing in our direct control) needs no defence — don't JADE — and why even that protection runs only to the level grace permits.
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Surviving our own choices & unexamined idols
Why we defend the big structures of our lives so fiercely — not because we examined and chose them, but because they quietly became load-bearing. On unexamined idolatry — asking a finite thing to do an infinite thing's work — what an idol really is, and how to live gently alongside it.
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The dissolution of shared identity
How the big frameworks that once told people who they were — nation, church, class, place and a common media — have weakened in modern times: the numbers behind the decline, the thinkers who named it, what rushed into the gap, and what we gain and lose as identity becomes something we assemble for ourselves.
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Anti-racism law, the Nowak case, and Reform
Which anti-racism laws the UK actually has, how their application drifted into the “two-tier policing” row after the murder of Henry Nowak, and why — for better or worse — it helps position Reform for the next election.