Attempting a compassionate demolition of self-deception.
Essays and conversations for people learning to sit with what’s hard about being human.
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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Sidemen Is a Good Place To Do Nothing
I’m sitting on the patio of Buntera Homestay in Sidemen, Indonesia. Staring at the intertwined plant forest in front as…
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Ain’t No Economy Like the Attention Economy: on leaving (but never actually leaving)
How the hell am I back on here?, the thought arrived, as an accordian menu folded open to reveal a…
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The Ministry of Self Improvement: discipline, the body, and the tyrant underneath
There’s definitely a self-destructive part of myself. That’s a guarantee. I feel like a lot of other people have it…
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The Beauty of Ugly Movement: grief, the body, and dancing with what won’t leave us
I laid on the floor in a heavy state as a dark wave of depressive fatigue and heaviness washed over…