Our bodies are not evolved for desk jobs. We need to do intentional damage control to allow our bodies to be what they’re adapted to be.

I meditated in my car during a rainstorm and had a few insights while gazing at the raindrops on the windshield.

I took an assessment measuring how comfortable I am with ambiguity, and the results were much different than they would have been a few years ago.

This is my list of the resources that have most heavily influenced my Mormon faith transition. The Most Common Cognitive Bias | Veritasium If you listen to any of these resources, listen to this one. It’s only five minutes long, it’s not specifically about religion, and what he demonstrates is widely applicable to all areas […]

Here’s my list of movies, books, shows, and characters that I think have elements relating to the concept of a faith transition.

Our brains are adapted to learn about animals and plants because it was critical for survival for our evolutionary ancestors.

Some insights I’ve gleaned about myself from reading Sapiens

I start to feel anxious when I’m consuming a lot of information from podcasts and books, and I suspect it’s partly because my brain doesn’t know what to do with all the unorganized information. I’ve learned that I can dispel this anxiety through writing. Whether it’s taking notes, recording thoughts in a journal, or publishing […]

“So what is ministering, anyway?” I was sitting in a church gym, and the Elders Quorum teacher was leading the semi-annual discussion where we redefine the word “ministering,” since no one seems to know exactly what it means. I was bored, so I looked around me and counted everyone in the room. 30 men. And […]

I recently listened to an episode from Noah Rasheta’s Secular Buddhism podcast called Learning to Live Artfully. In my understanding, the main idea of living artfully is rejecting the utilitarian model of thinking, where we try to justify all of our actions based on what utility or value they provide. For example, artists don’t paint […]