Don’t be surprised that AI does your job less well. What matters to whatever replaces you is speed and a standard of quality that is very often lower than what you are used to producing as a final result. Industrializing thought has never been a matter of producing substantially better; it simply makes access to intelligence available at a modest…
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Thanatophilia involves a complex relationship with finitude, where death is loved for itself, as a horizon, as a secret, or as the promise of definitive peace. But it is also, and more concretely, an attraction to everything that has ceased to live: a veneration of objects over beings, of the past over the present. Death can reassure Thanatophilic attraction is…
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If you are old enough — you are over 30 —, you know that the world we live in today is not quite normal. The changes we are witnessing are accelerating in such a way that, likely, in 30 years the world will bear no resemblance to the one we have known. AI and climate disorder, two elements that will…
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There are lives spent wanting to optimize everything all the time. This seemingly legitimate pursuit conceals a trap that may sooner or later close in on you. When you are never satisfied with anything, you expose yourself to an endless quest — that of constantly running toward what is better. This flaw, close to perfectionism, is unfortunately a mechanism in…
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The perception of past time is constantly altered. If, at a given moment T – in the present – we can say that we are relatively objective about what is happening to us, the passage of time inevitably alters that objectivity, under the combined effect of feelings and memory. What you have experienced, you will go so far as to…
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The world of social media often speaks only of money and notoriety, even though the satisfaction these provide is limited. Money allows us to meet essential and intermediate needs, but beyond a certain point, it is no longer enough. To go further, we must work with our hearts in such a way that they help us see the world in…
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He Had This Way of Disappearing When Things Weren’t Going Well He had this way of disappearing when things weren’t going well. Not by slamming the door, no. Just by becoming a little quieter, a little more elsewhere. His wife would say of him: “He goes into battle alone.” And it was true. He would return from his inner caverns…
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Moral suffering often takes root in the harsh judgment we pass on ourselves. Happiness, by contrast, intrinsically depends on our own self-esteem. Thus, the key to felicity would lie in the cultivation of goodness. Since goodness is inseparable from virtue, it is by elevating the qualities of our soul that we can hope to achieve lasting happiness. The Path Of…
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A common mistake we all make when communicating with others is to take them as they are, without considering what they could become. A person is a potential for change. Often, arguments arise in communication because we address the lower dimension of the other person rather than their most sublime aspect. Address the Most Sublime Part Every being has a…
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The Industrial Revolution amplified, or even created, the very notion of productivity in people’s minds; AI plays, and will play, a far more insidious role. Homo Productivicus In the crucible of our modern existences, blood ties are slowly, imperceptibly undoing themselves, like an old fabric fraying away. For we no longer discover ourselves except through the work of daily labor…
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