We tend to feel better if we point our moral compass in the direction of care for and attention to the world in which we live, the creatures of this world, and the ideas and institutions that maintain civilization at its best.
Your Golden Meaning Opportunities
How to create that feeling of meaning.
How to create that feeling of meaning.
Meaning as Nature’s Motivational Tool
Nature needs us to motivate ourselves if we are to survive, and the feeling of meaning is one of her tools.
Nature needs us to motivate ourselves if we are to survive, and the feeling of meaning is one of her tools.
Robbed of Purpose
Can we operate “without purpose,” telling ourselves that “purpose is bound to return”? Can that possibly work as a tactic?
Can we operate “without purpose,” telling ourselves that “purpose is bound to return”? Can that possibly work as a tactic?
Meaning Has Its Rhythms
Why our sense of the meaningfulness of life naturally comes and goes.
Why our sense of the meaningfulness of life naturally comes and goes.
The Cost of Meaning
While we may be able to coax the experience of meaning into existence, that coaxing can come with a high cost
While we may be able to coax the experience of meaning into existence, that coaxing can come with a high cost
Meaning Has Its Reasons
Why the same experience affects people very differently.
Why the same experience affects people very differently.
Why ‘Is Life Meaningful?’ Is the Wrong Question
If I’m no longer caring that much about meaning, what am I caring about?
If I’m no longer caring that much about meaning, what am I caring about?
On Craving the Feeling of Meaning
I need life to be more than just me existing, suffering, slaving, and then not existing. It can’t be just that!
I need life to be more than just me existing, suffering, slaving, and then not existing. It can’t be just that!
Everything You Thought You Knew About Meaning Is Wrong: The Even Harder Problem
The amazing implications of the truth that meaning is just a feeling.
The amazing implications of the truth that meaning is just a feeling.
Nothing There, a Parable or a Riddle?
Where is your novel? Where is it hiding?
Where is your novel? Where is it hiding?
Earthquake Country
It is proper that a stop on the bohemian international highway like San Francisco should exist on shaky ground.
It is proper that a stop on the bohemian international highway like San Francisco should exist on shaky ground.
A Street Like Herb’s: A Story of Bad Luck
There is the occasional insane pain of an event that seems to have occurred only to mock you, that is proof of the existence of absurd, whimsical, malevolent gods who have targeted you as the object of their fun.
There is the occasional insane pain of an event that seems to have occurred only to mock you, that is proof of the existence of absurd, whimsical, malevolent gods who have targeted you as the object of their fun.
Silent Respect
Who knew that eyes could hide so much?
Who knew that eyes could hide so much?
South of Market
In the history of writing, writers have come from every class and circumstance.
In the history of writing, writers have come from every class and circumstance.
The Bohemian International Highway
There is a bohemian international highway whose rest stops are separated by long distances and legions of philistines.
There is a bohemian international highway whose rest stops are separated by long distances and legions of philistines.