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Journal

Here you’ll find my philosophical meanderings in the form of articles, essays, and occasional poetry. My interests and curiosities are broad, but the central focus remains the pursuit of what is authentic, real, and true.

Lux et veritas


In Memory of Germ Theory

In Memory of Germ Theory

Look Closely, and the Story Falls Apart

What if one of the most deeply entrenched beliefs in modern medicine rests on a foundation that deserves far more scrutiny than it receives? Despite decades of debate, mounting public distrust, and countless dissenting voices, the dominant narrative remains largely unquestioned. It’s time to revisit the assumptions, challenge the dogma, and ask ourselves what we’ve been taught to fear — and why.

The Great Technological Rejection

The Great Technological Rejection

The Algorithmic Age and Its Discontents

For all the promises of progress, convenience, connection, and liberation, we find ourselves increasingly surrounded by technologies that demand more of our attention, our money, our privacy, and our lives, while offering diminishing returns in exchange. The question is no longer whether we can build more, automate more, or connect more. It is whether any of this is making us better off — and what we stand to recover when we finally decide that enough is enough.

Beyond the Regrets of the Dying

Beyond the Regrets of the Dying

The Quiet Work of Becoming

We can move through years without ever stopping to question the shape of our lives. Habit takes the place of intention; what began as accommodation becomes identity, and what once felt temporary gradually hardens into the way things are. Every so often, it’s worth stepping back — not to condemn the choices that brought us here, but to see them clearly enough to decide what comes next.

The Machine in the Mirror

The Machine in the Mirror

The Intelligence We Created

Artificial intelligence may be the most consequential mirror humanity has ever created. We are building machines by feeding them an extraordinary portion of what we have written, recorded, imagined, discovered, argued about, believed, and created, and then asking them to make sense of it. For the first time, we have a technology capable of processing an enormous portion of the human record and reflecting patterns back to us that no individual could possibly perceive on their own. And yet, much of the public conversation surrounding AI seems to begin with the assumption that what it finds there will inevitably be dangerous. I find that assumption worth questioning.

When Healing Looks Like Illness

When Healing Looks Like Illness

Shedding the Old Paradigm

There comes a point in the process of questioning where merely replacing one explanation with another is no longer enough. The deeper work begins when the new understanding is tested against experience — when an idea moves out of the realm of intellect and begins to change how we perceive, interpret, respond, and ultimately live. That transition can be uncomfortable, because it asks us not simply to question what we have been told, but to question the framework through which we have learned to understand ourselves.

Intelligence Beyond the Machinery

Intelligence Beyond the Machinery

There's No AI for That

We live amid an extraordinary amount of noise, much of it carefully arranged to keep our attention somewhere outside ourselves. The machinery grows more sophisticated, the stories more elaborate, and the demands upon our attention more constant, but the underlying question remains much the same: what happens when we surrender too much of our perception, our authority, and our agency to systems that claim to know what is best for us?