Commonplace

The Journal

Every entry, most recent first.


Nietzsche on Reflection

Nietzsche on Reflection

On a passage from The Gay Science, and reflection as a lost art worth preserving.

On Making Things Easier

On Making Things Easier

On spurning efficiency, and Kierkegaard's case for deliberately making some things harder.

What we give up

What we give up

On AI, effort, and why the work of becoming a person can't be outsourced.