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Beyond the Filing Cabinet
The Economist and the Cloud Years before the productivity world became infatuated with second brains and networked note-taking platforms, an elderly Japanese economist was already demonstrating how to dismantle the traditional desktop…
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The Sunk Costs of Piety
The Words in the Sanctuary: An Encounter with the Text The rhythm of the liturgy creates a particular kind of silence, a space where familiar phrases can suddenly lose their customary smoothing…
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Finding Meaning in the Triad of Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics
The Enclosure of Pure Rules In 1980, John Searle introduced a thought experiment that remains an enduring touchstone in the philosophy of mind. He asked his readers to picture a person locked…
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Tom Yonashiro is a writer with a background in philosophy, religion, technology, and cybersecurity marketing. He writes to translate life’s complexities into meaning.