Reflections

Curiosity without boundaries.

In the spirit of the Renaissance ideal, these writings span multiple disciplines across philosophy, economics, societal challenges and more. With each piece I seek to explore ideas that resist simple conclusions, because the most important questions rarely have easy answers

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The Death of Nuance

With every passing day, it feels like we’re finding it more and more difficult as a society to discuss real, complex issues with the depth and nuance they demand. Not just to understand the challenges we face but also to understand each other.

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Are We Forgetting How to Think?

It feels as though as more time passes, we’re drifting further into an age where true independent thinking is quietly fading away. It’s not that we’ve lost intelligence or the capacity to think, at least, not yet.

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