A short essay on a rare epistemic habit, and how to spot it from the outside There is a kind of person who pokes holes in things. They hear a confident claim and reach for the exception. They take the unpopular side at dinner. They cannot let a tidy conclusion sit there being tidy. The … Continue reading How to Recognize Someone Who Argues With Themselves
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What Stays and What Moves
A short essay on a single idea about how to tell the real from the relative There is a move so simple it sounds almost like nothing: hold everything fixed but one thing, change that one thing, and watch what happens. What stays the same across the change is stable under that test — and … Continue reading What Stays and What Moves
