Spirit and The Cost of Cognition

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The Truth Coming Out of Her Well

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Life Abundant in an Artificial Age

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August 2025

I'm Going to Prison

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The Edge of the Crowd

What to do when belonging costs too much.

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July 2025

On Spiritual Manipulation

Not an Antichrist Essay (Yet)

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The Dao of Technology

Between the Scylla and Charybdis of Digital Life

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June 2025

You've Invited: The Foundations of Agency Workshop

A 6-Week Experience for Anti-Mimetic Leadership

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Innovation and Repetition

An essay by René Girard.

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Behind the Scenes: On Style

An Anti-Mimetic Approach to Audience Capture—Defying Expectation

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May 2025

Becoming a Vampire

The nature of transformative experience.

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