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Rhys Lindmark

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How to Live a Meaningful Life

> "We are too late for gods and too early for being." —Heidegger The modern world is in a meaning crisis [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ]. "Traditional" sources of meaning (religion) are being rejected, but there's nothing to take their place. The

6 Frontier Movements

If you'd like to learn more about the Roote Paradigm, please check out Roote and apply to be a Roote Fellow by July 21. The goal of this article is to show how frontier movements relate to the Roote Paradigm. We'll fill out the table below

Defining Meta Existential Risk

Defining Meta Existential Risk

> “Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake." —Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning > "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." —Al Bartlett, Professor at

Seeing as a Human Organism

Seeing as a Human Organism

The goal of today's article is to give readers more understanding of the more recent neologisms that I use/support, especially ones that I use in the context of "systems thinking for good". Seeing Like a _______ I like the form Seeing Like a ______. It allows one

Sapir-Whorfing Yourself

Sapir-Whorfing Yourself

Unique language is a good example of "the future mindset is already here, it's just not evenly distributed yet." Today I want to focus on how to do "multi-perspective thinking" by using a find-replace mechanism with certain words. Let's check it out!

How I Use Punctuation

How I Use Punctuation

Hmmmm. I'm not sure the best way to write about language, but I know I want to. It's nice to reflect on how one writes (compared to others). Let's start with certain punctuation styles that I use disproportionately often. Parenthesis * I often use an

Behind on Writing

Behind on Writing

I'm trying to write every weekday (and have a 4-day streak right now!). Usually I try to write for 30-60min in the morning. But today I was too busy and didn't make that happen (and now it's 11pm!). What should I do? How can

Setting Up Writing Processes

Setting Up Writing Processes

I want to do some "meta" work around my writing process. This is especially crucial when one hopes to write consistently/daily (as I do!), and when one has a bunch of random ideas but isn't sure where they all fit (as I do!). By meta

Switching from Medium to Ghost!

Lots of folks have been moving off of Medium recently because they're annoyed with things like Medium's paywall. I've been thinking about doing this as well. For me, it's mostly about the ability to "curate" my content for my audience,