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When engineering gets 100% meta-rational
Demand for meta-rational competence is about to explode. Don't miss the boat
Feb 24 • David Chapman
The threat of the dakini & challenge of the vira
Vajra romance, gender dynamics, and developmental stage transitions
Feb 21 • David Chapman
Unavailable dakini catalyst
Seven tales of love and liberation through wrenching revisionings.
Feb 17 • David Chapman
Maya: a catastrophic extramarital encounter
The transformation it wrought, and how that echoed through decades
Feb 7 • David Chapman
Rational romance
What systematic relationship is, why you might want it, and how to get it
Jan 31 • David Chapman
Subcultures: 10/14/88
A dark taste of the subcultural era, written just past its peak
Dec 15, 2025 • David Chapman
53:42
Personal experiences of sacredness & community
In Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Neopaganism, and everyday secular life
Dec 6, 2025 • David Chapman
Hello UFO! And farewell Historical Artifact.
This winter's light-supplementation upgrade for my work station
Nov 28, 2025 • David Chapman
Elena: Forced out of the interpersonal stage
A life-or-death decision that catalyzed profound personal transformation.
Nov 22, 2025 • David Chapman
0:18
Dzogchen Street Preacher #0: Kadag
I preach the Good News: there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the world—or you!
Nov 18, 2025 • David Chapman
Conquering chronic crud
How I diagnosed and remedied the food intolerance that took six years out of my life.
Nov 15, 2025 • David Chapman
Sacredness without metaphysics
Unconstrained access to sacred perception and action, compatible with skeptical naturalism.
Nov 11, 2025 • David Chapman
1:51:48
Maps of Meaningness
Jake Orthwein and I compare Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning with Meaningness
Nov 4, 2025 • David Chapman and Jake Orthwein
Juicy Salif and Dreamfarm
Reaching into the mythic as-if to solve industrial design problems
Oct 25, 2025 • David Chapman
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Essays on meaning, technical work, ethics, self and society, AI, Vajrayana Buddhism, and vampires. For paying subscribers, fun stories, rants, and previews of serious writing.
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