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How Much of the World’s Pain Can One Person Hear?
Vermeer painted a servant nobody would remember. Eliot argued that the world’s good rests on people like her, and on our not hearing everything at once.
10 hrs ago
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Philosopheasy
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Pascal's Mugging and the Obligation You Can't Put Down
Every small duty feels too risky to drop. A 1654 friendship, a 2007 blog post and a court full of busy courtiers explain why.
Nov 7
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Philosopheasy
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Sitting Through the Gap: A Toolkit for the Minute After the Last Task
A task can be necessary and a hiding place both. What matters is why you're doing it now.
Nov 4
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Philosopheasy
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Wang Yangming and the Wrong You Stopped Noticing
Hiroshige’s figures hurry across a bridge with their heads down in the rain. A 16th-century Chinese philosopher said that is exactly how we pass the…
Nov 3
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Philosopheasy
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Blaise Pascal: Sitting Quietly in a Room, & The Busyness That Hides Us
You say you want one day with nothing to do, but when it comes you fill it within the hour.
Nov 2
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Philosopheasy
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Count the Grains Before They Become a Heap
Bruegel hid a drowning boy in the corner of a busy day. Eubulides explains how we stop seeing him.
Nov 1
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Philosopheasy
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October 2026
Zeno: the arrow at rest in every instant, and the day off that never moves
A 2,500-year-old puzzle, three tools for living in the stretch between the points, and why Saturday keeps coming out flat.
Oct 30
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Philosopheasy
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3:51
The Lingering Kit: Tools for a Day Off With No Output
A no-report audit of your weekend, three lingering prompts, and a seven-day journal that asks how the day felt.
Oct 28
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Philosopheasy
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21:50
Byung-Chul Han: The Scent of Time, and the Saturday That Clocks You In
Your weekend has a to-do list and a recovery target. Han explains why that turns rest into another shift, and what lingering asks of you instead.
Oct 26
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Philosopheasy
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What the Clerks Couldn’t Put on the Inventory
In 1656 they counted everything Rembrandt owned. Three years later he painted what was left.
Oct 25
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Philosopheasy
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Socrates: wrongdoing as a mistake in sums, and why it rarely feels like one
You already know the better option, and you've watched yourself pass it by.
Oct 23
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Philosopheasy
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Closing the Akrasia Gap: A Toolkit for the Moment Between Knowing and Doing
You already know what's good for you. Here is how to find which kind of stuck you are, and how to move.
Oct 21
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Philosopheasy
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