A lot of people are boasting about how they automate their writing to an AI. My take is simple – if AI can write it, maybe it does not need to be written. Writing is thinking. Outsourcing your thinking is… Read More »Writing is Thinking
I often see that people not capable of dealing with their issue like to pass the solving of the issue to someone else. It can be as trivial as setting up a notification rules for an app. It is easier… Read More »Having Others Solve Your Incompetence
I think it will be like fifth year now that I do not drink for a month two times a year. Usually it is March and October. It always brings a lot of clarity and changes. I know it seems… Read More »Being Sober
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
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
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
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
It is about values. “The danger isn’t that modern people are optimizing toward the wrong end — pursuing status when they should pursue family, or wealth when they should pursue meaning. The danger is that optimization has become a mode… Read More »The Optimization Trap: Why the Birth Rate Can’t Be Fixed