Notes

21 April 2026

Perhaps microsleeps during wakefulness as a result of sleep deprivation are comparable to DMN intrusions during focused attention as a result of chronic overstimulation and subsequent lack of reflection

15 April 2026

The technological revolution has increased the economic baseline needed to economically contribute, leading to the decline in government subsidisies and involvement by proportion

5 April 2026

One thing modern society does well is the amplification of will. Never have single people been able to change the lives of millions so easily. Unfortunately, what has been forgotten is that such acts should only be performed if society has the ability to metabolise its consequences. For example, the consequences of economic shock therapy on millions through starvation, alcoholism and destitute poverty are yet to be acknowledged, recognised, and thus shaped the future expressions of our will adjusted accordingly

1 April 2026

Beware of any framework that justifies its necessity or application in a manner that is entirely relative. For example, justifications for the existence of homelessness that reference the consequences of inflation, or similar economic outcomes. Analysing the framework that this operates within reveals facile presuppositions

27 March 2026

Other people's work should not be built upon. Rather, understood, contextualised, and assimilated. We do not stand on the shoulders of giants; we read the blueprints they left for the construction of ladders

27 March 2026

There is great importance in the sequence of realisation. For example, it is healthy to understand that the world is good before it is bad, and that you can rely on others before knowing you are existentially alone. The framework of fragile truths gets swallowed by that of deeper ones

24 March 2026

Childhood trauma is often about forcing a psyche to contend with an aspect of reality, often of existential significance, that it is unable to contain or comprehend. Often the realisations it provokes are not necessarily false, just premature, or otherwise out of developmental order

23 March 2026

There are no right choices. Only commitment and non-commitments, pursuit and avoidance, leading and being led

21 March 2026

A helpful reframing: most people's flaws serve as evidence of their sensitivity, and thus their capacity for good

17 March 2026

The best kept secret is that most exceptional people are ordinary people with exceptional reasons

16 March 2026

Goethe: 'There is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again'. We must make time and room for reconstruction by curious minds, for that lays the foundation for future construction. Grothendiecke's concept of 'entrepreneurial' mathematicians, a concept that can easily be ported to other disciplines, conveys the distinction between working within and extending that is often forgotten in modern education

15 March 2026

There comes a point in everyone's life when they must step off the highway of truth and continue along by foot

14 March 2026

Perhaps the mechanism of phobic avoidance used to maintain dissociative barriers in the psyche can be applied to the unquestioned barriers of acceptable societal discourse and thought (eg. Overton window)

14 March 2026

Added the notes page to the website