Essays

Floating Atlantis ³⁸ ESSAY

Should one pursue enlightenment?

For most people, the ferris wheel of life is satisfying enough. Between the worldly pleasures, there is no catalyst to get off the ride and walk through the rainy, gray amusement park. But if you walk …

Siddhartha’s Syllogism ¹⁹ ESSAY

Logical argument for Buddhism

Buddhism is a hedonic philosophy. Siddhartha was an empiricist set on understanding the human condition. He had a singular objective: to reduce suffering. While Buddhism has ethical values, they exist …

The Extinguishment ⁶ ESSAY

Enlightenment as the Great Filter

Asimov's dreams will never be realized: we will not be an interplanetary species or harvest all the sun's energy. Long before these, our great filter will be that have solved our motivations.

The Vegan Butcher ¹⁰ ESSAY

Chopping with existential lucidity

On the steps, a burly man wipes his forehead. He is out for his smoke break. Once dissolved the illusions of free will, purpose, and a self, how does one live in the world?

Fiction

Madrugada ⁸ FICTION

The jeweled quiet of early dawn

The bus was a relief. The terminal reeked. Cigarettes and sweat. Men grown weary of life, who chose to bathe in eternal fluorescence. We departed. The city unraveled into pastoral stretches. Patchwork …

Pitch-22 ¹² FICTION

Series C startup unoptimizes society

Pitch-22's novel pluralistic optimization method allows create serendipity in daily life interactions, such as bus stops, ordering from restaurants, and booking flights.

The Glass Temple ³ FICTION

Sunlit but without a source

The space was sunlit but without a source. The temple was walled with glass, revealing distant stars. The present stretched infinitely, until it was all I could see.