Writing

Essays

Read these after the guided journey when you want the argument in full: comparison, privilege, luck, perseverance, and bounded agency.

Edition 01 · 2 published pieces

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Arguments behind the journey

  1. 01

    ·8 min read

    Everyone Has Lost Their Marbles

    Trajectories, comparison, and the bounded agency that actually runs a life.

    Comparison as judgment is logically broken — it removes nearly every cause that produced the result, keeps only the visible score, and then pretends the score explains something. It does not.

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  2. 02

    ·6 min read

    Who Filled the King's Jug?

    Privilege, abstraction, and the invisible work behind accomplishment.

    Privilege is having more of life prepared for you in advance — a private, high-level interface to the world that lets some people begin near the final step.

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