Archive - Monomythical

All the things I've been doing lately

POV: You're a guest at a house party filled with Nadias

May 30

March 2025

Introducing: Antimemetics (my new book!)

It's easier than ever to share ideas.

Mar 26

November 2024

New report: How altered states shape our minds

When I first pitched a magazine piece about a meditation subculture surrounding the jhanas at the beginning of this year, there hadn’t been any media…

Nov 20, 2024

August 2024

Protecting our attention

I was rather confused when sociologist Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Anxious Generation, came out earlier this year, which examines the harmful effects of…

Aug 13, 2024

June 2024

What is meditation for?

Jun 27, 2024

May 2024

Dangerous protocols

After the early crypto boom of 2017, I spent a few years dabbling at its edges.

May 9, 2024

April 2024

Exploring altered states of consciousness

When researchers were trying to understand the effects of LSD in the early 1960s, a team in Toronto strapped and blindfolded their subjects in sterile…

Apr 15, 2024

February 2024

Why effective accelerationism matters

Nearly a year ago, an editor reached out to me about writing a piece on effective accelerationism, or e/acc.

Feb 12, 2024

November 2023

The Hypnotized Society

Nov 16, 2023

September 2023

I'm just coming out of the black hole of this summer, which was very writing- and research-intensive, between participating in the Summer of Protocols…

Sep 27, 2023

May 2023

Remembering GitHub's office

I was bummed when I read GitHub’s February announcement that it would permanently close its San Francisco headquarters.

May 28, 2023

The battle over tech's values

If you’ve paid attention to the news in the last decade, you’ve probably noticed a negative turn in sentiment towards the tech industry, sometimes…

May 15, 2023

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