Friendship, devoid of transactionality..

What is rational, optimal and even ethical in an ordinary interaction is rarely so on the assembly line of interactions.

The relation between the unhappy and the interesting in writing.

Whether character comes from suffering, and whether it’s worth suffering for.

Writing on narrower themes, for no one.

The implications of privilege, and its checking.

Causality precedes prescription

Whether deliberation makes something unnatural, and whether it’s enough to be genuine to be natural.

Discipline and truth, force and natural inclination.

The neighbour as a metaphor against elitism and abstraction

The terms and conditions for caring.

The question of what to work on.

Markets are about voting.

Keeping faith amidst pointlessness.

Recognition isn’t devoid of value.

What the automation of work entails – for work and for people.

“For if anything becomes brilliant by additions thereto, the praise for the brilliance belongs to the additions.”

Does it matter if a plunge is chosen or not?

Irony as an easy way out.

Not all sincerity is the same.

Correcting the mistake of confusing abstraction for objectivity.

The stupidity of seeking and taking offence.

What being ethical actually means.

An unsuccessful person’s take on what it means to be successful.

Why quantity seems to always erode quality.