We Built This City
Quick note: one of my favorite creative exercises is to let myself get drawn to a song—not one I've decided is good, just one that makes me FEEL something. I know it when I feel it. Then I sit, and I write, and I write, and I
James Croall
What the DSM and Its Replacements Keep Missing
Every experienced clinician eventually hits the same wall. You’re sitting with a brain map on one screen and a diagnostic label on the other, and they don’t match. Not in the way that ambiguous data doesn’t match—in the way that the label seems to be describing
The Most Dangerous Idea You Already Believe
"Knowledge is power" is one of those phrases we repeat without following to its conclusion. If knowledge is power, then "some things are unknowable" is a power move.
Stop Calling This Self-Help
I keep getting miscategorized.
Not in so many words—nobody walks up and says “hey, nice motivational content.” It’s subtler than that. I get introduced to programs that specialize in the inspirational space. I get suggested for panels alongside manifestation coaches and abundance mindset trainers. People hear the word
The Akashic Field Isn’t Mystical. It’s Mathematical.
When More Information Doesn’t Help
We are not suffering from a lack of knowledge. We have more data, more research, more communication infrastructure than any civilization in history. Information is not the bottleneck.
And yet—trust is collapsing, politics is fragmenting into tribes that can’t hear each other,
Can AI Think Outside the Map?
Artificial intelligence is getting very good at answering questions.
It can write essays, generate images, discover proteins, debug code, diagnose disease. Each week brings another announcement that sounds, at least on the surface, like a boundary being crossed.
People keep reaching for the same phrase: this changes everything.
But beneath
From Languages of the Brain to Inner Life
What we’ve learned to measure
We live in a time of extraordinary measurement.
We track our steps, our sleep, our productivity, our moods. We scan brains, model behavior, optimize systems, and instrument nearly every domain of life that will sit still long enough to be observed. We measure activity.