Here are some great articles/essays/podcasts I've consumed listed chronologically below.

Week 1/29

• The Long Path That Leads from the Making of Our World to God

  • Where Christopher Alexander discusses the course of his life's work in architecture and how it ultimately led him to God.

  This story of my life, is one which began with childlike, primitive faith, which then took me through dark forests of non-understanding, and was finally able to emerge into the light of day, with a vision which is both visionary and empirical.

  • Something something about "rings true to me" as a way to connect the subjective and objective, especially in the context of beauty and healing and designing for the human spirit.

• The Psychopolitics of Trauma

  • Scott Alexander takes us on a deep dive into the psychological definition of trauma and its overlaps with how some experience politics.

  That means the media ecosystem is a giant machine trying to traumatize as many people as possible in order to create repeat customers, ie trauma addicts.