Entrepreneur
Fear and hope ride along in every Reality as the angle attention cannot read. Like velocity, they are carried and unfelt, and they reach you only on a quarter turn: the two sentences you write. … readFear Rides Along. You Feel It on the Turn.
“It didn’t affect me” is usually heard as a report that something reached a person and left them as they were. Derived from the foundation’s premise that to perceive is to change state, the sentence turns out to be three reports in one — and as a report of state it is the one thing it cannot be. … readWhat Is Unmoved
A reputation is pictured as a possession — something you build, hold, and can have taken from you. The foundation I work from says it has no single location: it is a set of present marks plus a term in the denominator of every host who has read them, and not one component of it is in you. That is why you have never inspected the thing you call yours, why four hundred people hold four hundred different ones, and why the thousandth decent act is worth almost nothing while the first lapse can be worth four hundred and fifty-eight times as much. … readWhat Is a Reputation
A language is pictured either as a neutral container you pour thoughts into, or as the thing that cuts the world into the pieces you are then stuck with. Both pictures assume the only two relations on offer are causing and doing nothing. The foundation I work from has a third one, and the ordinary business of learning a word is where it can be watched operating. … readWhat Is a Language
A witness is supposed to be someone who was there: a person in relation to an event, receiving it and carrying it forward unaltered. The foundation says a witness is not in relation with the event at all, because the event is over and what is over cannot hold up its end of anything. A witness is what an act left behind in a living thing — a mark, not a window — and testimony is a present reading of that mark. That is why a camera counts, why you can become a witness six days after the fact, why two honest people on one corner carry two different crashes, and why nobody has performed an unwitnessed act. … readWhat Is a Witness
If “I Am” is a position and “I want” is a velocity, then desire is the derivative of identity: every want splits into a component that grows you and a component that turns you, a want is felt only when something resists it, and whether knowing can bend wanting turns out to be the oldest fight in moral psychology. … read“I Want” Is the Derivative of “I Am”
Your clock and mine disagree for the same reason two people at different angles disagree about a door: we are reading components off different axes. What a frame of reference actually is, why your time differs from mine, and which quantities were never yours to disagree about. … readA Frame Is an Angle
Momentum is mass times velocity, and a real number cannot rotate a complex one — so momentum inherits velocity’s imaginary axis whole. Why the quantum momentum operator has an i in it, what the Born rule actually deletes, and exactly where the metaphor stops being true. … readMass Cannot Turn You
Position, velocity, acceleration, jerk, snap, crackle, pop. Your body reads exactly half that ladder — the real half. A Tegmark-style lesson for philosophy majors: you cannot feel the Earth’s thousand miles an hour because velocity is imaginary. The mathematics is not the description. It is the situation. … readYou Only Feel the Real Part
The core thesis, spoken. Twenty-three minutes on why thoughts are met rather than made — and why listening, not effort, is the discipline of a thinking life. Put it on and go walk. Full transcript included. … readWe Do Not Manufacture Thoughts. We Relate to Them.