An honest attempt at being human
Essays and conversations looking for wisdom, self-acceptance, noticing self-deception and navigating life between its scripts.
Robert Meets World Podcast
Conversations that refuse to stick in a lane
A conversation with a matchmaker about why dating apps optimize for the wrong thing bleeds into Jungian alchemy, then into mimetic theory, then into what AI agents will do to human loneliness.
Guests range from founders who’ve sold companies to psychoanalysts to a guy who ran a men’s festival on his family farm, and the show follows wherever the thread leads rather than sticking to a format.
If you want tidy takeaways, this isn’t that. If you want to sit inside a real, winding inquiry into how people actually build meaning, businesses, and identities, this is.
Writing
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Press ENTER to Feel: In Silico-Qualia
Address 0x40 settles in the program counter. Opcode ADD latches into the instruction register, brief and exact. Three targets awaken:…
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I Lost My Heart in Ericeira: the heart centre, cacao & connection
I tell people I lost my heart in Ericeira. The ocean swept up my recklessness one June morning as I…
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The Shadow Artist, The Software Engineer: Getters, Setters, and Other Things I Loved Without Knowing Why
In Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, she defines a “shadow artist” as someone who works near an artistic outlet without…
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The Wi-Fi Password is ‘heartcenter’
I’m sitting on a worn-out, low, crimson couch cushion. Around me are multi-dimensional prisms, astrology books, tarot cards, and metaphysical…