Inner work
Awareness, The Way Within, and how beliefs hold up: the inner work behind the building.
How to stay steady in a tense meeting without anyone noticing
A touch nobody sees in a meeting, how to set it up, and the two-minute exercise it rests on, from my book The Way Within, out in paperback and Kindle.
Were an old French couple really stripped by rioters? The photos were AI fakes, and I repeated them
I told a friend rioters had stripped an old couple at the French protests. The photos were AI fakes, and the police report I fell back on was an unconfirmed TV tip. Here's the six-step check I'll run next time.
Failed at meditation? Try this two-minute exercise for a busy mind instead
Efformism in plain English: two short exercises for a busy mind, the idea behind my book The Way Within, and what that idea refuses to claim.
An AI can invent a belief you never held from your own notes. Mine did, for 18 days.
A belief-audit session ranked a claim about my income top of a list of what I believe. I published it as mine. It took 18 days to find out I had never said it.
Testing your own belief feels boring. Defending it feels great. The gap is the tell.
When an AI agent found the half of my belief nothing could touch and pushed, I felt no fear. I felt bored and stupid, as if the fuel had been switched off…
How to tell which of your beliefs cannot be wrong, and why it matters
I audited three beliefs I actually hold. Each was two claims in one sentence: a half I could check, and a half nothing could ever touch.
Bernardo Kastrup's cosmic mind has no plan: what analytic idealism actually claims
The most rigorous idealist alive gives the non-duality audience far less than they want: a universal consciousness that is instinctive, has no plan, and is not looking back at you. What he actually claims, why he says it cannot be proven, and the one part that survives whoever turns out to be right.
You Are Not the House You Built
The third in a series. The performed self is a building you put up because contact with the real one was unbearable. Stopping it from falling down is why you are so tired.
If It Makes You Angry, It Isn't Yours
Anthony de Mello said you know someone has been brainwashed because they get angry when you challenge their beliefs. Social media and AI have made the condition almost universal.
Contact Is the Test
Self-awareness that doesn't produce contact with other people has gone bad. Dostoevsky figured this out in 1864.
Truth Is the Currency of the Future
I'm betting my family's financial future on truth. Here's why I think you should too.