ESSAYS
Essays and reflections
Long-form writing on philosophy, technology, culture, faith, work, and the questions that shape a life.
The Ways We Come to Know
A Book We Have Not Read A book called How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read immediately creates a small moral crisis. The…
The Seed That Awaits Us
A Small Image With a Long Future When Jesus wished to speak about the Word of God, He chose the image of a seed.…
The Corruption of Good Intentions
The Dream That Inspired the World Many years ago, I encountered the Millennium Development Goals through Jeffrey Sachs’s book The End of Poverty. The…
When Characters Begin to Live
When Admiration Does Not Become Conviction For a long time, I wondered whether my inability to appreciate Hideaki Anno’s films revealed some weakness in…
Clear Thought Before Rich Format
A Simple Request With Hidden Layers The realization often begins with a task that looks simple from the outside. A document needs to be…
The AI-Native Misunderstanding
The Moment of Confusion A strange situation has formed around artificial intelligence. Almost every organization now feels pressure to use it, talk about it,…
The World Made Audible
The First Question Was Smaller Than the Answer The question began in a practical place. How does one become more articulate? It sounds like…
When Knowledge Forgets Mercy
Three Encounters with Knowledge Turned Cold I recently came across a Japanese business media article about reunions. Its argument was simple and provocative: people…
The Room That Has Never Changed
James Allen, Timeless Prose, and the Discipline of Writing Toward Essence Entering a Room That Has Never Changed Every time I return to the…
Text as the Long Memory of Thought
When the Archive Is Already There The discussion around the “second brain” often begins with a reasonable concern. Modern intellectual life produces too many…
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