Not everything needs to be monetized. “The entire machinery of online discourse around building and creating has been so thoroughly captured by entrepreneurial “logic” that we’ve lost the language to describe what it feels like to simply make a thing… Read More »The Noble Path
I am giving Mastodon and social media in general another go after a while. Here is what I have noticed immediately – even after years of social media detox, my brain immediately craves for next posts. I love RSS, and… Read More »Once You Are a Junkie, Always a Junkie
If you are an engineer, have a responsibility for your actions.
Even a real diagnosis is the least interesting thing about you. “You have been told a very dangerous lie: that you are fragile. I don’t think so.” https://tantaman.com/2025-01-01-you-are-not-your-diagnosis
Invest in what you understand.
Education has many advantages, but fixing disputes isn’t one of them. “But education does not—cannot—produce agreement on contested values. It cannot bridge axiom gaps. It cannot compel belief in those who smell the compulsion. It cannot cure the biases of… Read More »Education Cannot Save Us
Early retirement was always the default. “Even during the commercial efflorescence of the late Republic and Principate, no one argued that accumulation was virtuous in itself. The rich man who kept working when he could afford otium was pitiable or… Read More »Burnout is a Modern Invention
A fun little game. “Try this. I’ll give you data. You interpret it. Then I’ll give you more data. Watch what your mind does.” https://tantaman.com/2026-03-04-fourth-way-of-knowing.html
We need institutions to live. “Every day, we trust countless strangers – people who share no blood with us, whom we will never meet again, and who could easily betray that trust without anyone watching. We step into traffic assuming… Read More »Institutions are how we scale up cooperation among millions
Been thinking about this a lot recently. “We don’t realise how much it takes to do something simple like sit down and have a coffee while listening to some music. When the consciousness is filled with stress and anxiety, or… Read More »living in surreal times