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Stories
Stories provide mental models for us to understand the world and our place in it. When you see them, you can shift them.
8 Apr 2026
Rules are stories
And stories can change
18 Mar 2026
What if you’re a character in someone else's story?
What The Slap can teach us about our opinions.
16 Mar 2026
Opinionated Toolkit
Practical resources to interrogate and improve your opinions
11 Mar 2026
Opinions are like assholes
An enema for your thoughts
4 Mar 2026
From custom to conscience: calling bullshit on old thinking
Premarital sex, power literacy, chocolate cake: in. Class structures, outdated morality, fruit cake: out.
30 Jan 2026
WTF do you want? Desire is suspicious; productivity a scam.
First Friday Flurry of 2026 goes hard.
26 Nov 2025
Stop reading the news
It doesn't make you a good person.
21 Feb 2024
Understanding idea technology
The ideas we have shape the world we live in. We need to question those ideas regularly, to create a society we can be proud of.