Analects

Filter by type: All · Articles · Audio · Marginalia

Filter by anthology: All · Betterment · Gratification · Connection · Somatic Architecture · Spiritual Architecture · Thought Architecture · Wealth Architecture · Digital Architecture · Collective Architecture

Successful Prophets

• [marginalium] The long history of association between God and unusual smells — 19 Jun 2025
• [marginalium] Culture trumps evidence — 20 Feb 2025
• [marginalium] A theory of autocratic bad-decision-making (pdf) — 9 Jun 2023
• [marginalium] On handling people, when everyone is the main character — 5 Jun 2023
• [marginalium] Interesting piece—normal people becoming killers — 2 Jun 2023
• [marginalium] What happens, then, when large and powerful states, along with the transnational institutions and corporations they promote and protect, are all driving towards the same goal — 15 May 2023
• [marginalium] The fake neuroscience of God — 9 Apr 2023
• [marginalium] Neuroscience shows that spiritual experiences are correlated with brain states that we can all aim for, religious or not — 6 Feb 2023
• [marginalium] Machine in the ghost — 30 Dec 2022
• [marginalium] The gossip trap — 6 Dec 2022
• [marginalium] On applying Quakerism to the Effective Altruism movement ( — 18 Nov 2022
• [marginalium] On the value of reading dead philosophers — 9 Nov 2022
• [marginalium] On the accuracy of futurist predictions (usually not very accurate) — 4 Nov 2022
• [marginalium] Solving Bauman’s ‘liquid modernity’ with commitment — 22 Oct 2022
• [marginalium] Taleb on Christianity — 21 Oct 2022