I write and podcast at https://meaningness.substack.com/ about: * Understanding meaning, purpose, and culture * Leveling up technical work by going beyond formal rationality * Vajrayana: the life-affirming branch of Buddhismhttps://bsky.app/profile/meaningness.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/meaningness.bsky.social/post/3lwegyxmsvc2b🆕 You do not have to be someone special to be noble. Nobility can appear in wildly diverse forms—as illustrated in myth, fantasy fiction, and Vajrayana Buddhist practice. You can be noble however is natural for you—not conforming to some socially fixed idea. https://meaningness.substack.com/p/vajra-pride-and-the-diversity-of14 Aug 2025 13:27 +0000at://did:plc:2kg7sfd7ppesvy3dz5rbl2d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwegyxmsvc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/meaningness.bsky.social/post/3luuupbnmxc24🆕 Nobility in current circumstances depends on an unusual way of perceiving, understanding, and acting. You BECOME the kingdom, and positive visions emerge from your mythic engagement in it. https://meaningness.substack.com/p/seeing-like-a-good-king26 Jul 2025 15:25 +0000at://did:plc:2kg7sfd7ppesvy3dz5rbl2d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3luuupbnmxc24https://bsky.app/profile/meaningness.bsky.social/post/3ltl4pgk6lk2a࿇ 📺 @petermcewen.bsky.social and I will co-lead a zoom discussion / Q&A on deity yoga, relational yogas, and the nebulosity of identity: Sunday the 20th (weekend after this coming one). Register here! lu.ma/22iop35g (Peter is very scary but fortunately for you I am a girl. Tea will be served!) https://lu.ma/22iop35g10 Jul 2025 00:56 +0000at://did:plc:2kg7sfd7ppesvy3dz5rbl2d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltl4pgk6lk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/meaningness.bsky.social/post/3ltaavkqsec2q🆕🎙️ New podcast with @jimrutt.bsky.social! We discussed All The Things—honor, courage, confidence, dignity, decency, and magnificence for example—and had a lot of fun. www.jimruttshow.com/david-chapman/ https://www.jimruttshow.com/david-chapman/05 Jul 2025 17:12 +0000at://did:plc:2kg7sfd7ppesvy3dz5rbl2d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltaavkqsec2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/meaningness.bsky.social/post/3lsjeodrtrs22🆕🎙️ New podcast with Charlie Awbery! An unexpected question, and then we work out an answer together. https://meaningness.substack.com/p/whats-the-connection-between-gender26 Jun 2025 14:48 +0000at://did:plc:2kg7sfd7ppesvy3dz5rbl2d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsjeodrtrs22https://bsky.app/profile/meaningness.bsky.social/post/3lrxpgfimq22x🆕 Strategies and tactics for overcoming the typical emotional and relationship difficulties faced by software engineers and other STEM-ish people! https://meaningness.substack.com/p/leveraging-lag-engineers-and-salespeople19 Jun 2025 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:2kg7sfd7ppesvy3dz5rbl2d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrxpgfimq22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/meaningness.bsky.social/post/3lq3uwtiujk2e🆕 Nobility is the wise and just use of power. Software engineers have recently gained enormous power—and are not always using it wisely or justly. We can do better—and so can you, regardless of occupation or position. https://meaningness.substack.com/p/software-engineers-are-eating-the26 May 2025 19:12 +0000at://did:plc:2kg7sfd7ppesvy3dz5rbl2d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lq3uwtiujk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/meaningness.bsky.social/post/3lp6ebxmkd22l"Sometimes ritual doesn’t just demand that we hold ourselves in, but instead that we loosen ourselves up." [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 May 2025 01:26 +0000at://did:plc:2kg7sfd7ppesvy3dz5rbl2d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp6ebxmkd22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/meaningness.bsky.social/post/3lp2ltkc2s226🆕 Nobility is the wise and just use of power. What counts as noble? How did nobility become a myth? What have we lost as a consequence? How will we recover it? meaningness.substack.com/p/ofermod https://meaningness.substack.com/p/ofermod13 May 2025 13:31 +0000at://did:plc:2kg7sfd7ppesvy3dz5rbl2d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp2ltkc2s226https://bsky.app/profile/meaningness.bsky.social/post/3loghiyju5k2s🆕 Nobility calls for secular authority to limit the oppressive power of priests and courtiers. When kings fail in that duty, it may fall to churls—or, better, ceorls. I explain the mystery of vice signaling: https://meaningness.substack.com/p/to-keep-priests-in-check05 May 2025 13:20 +0000at://did:plc:2kg7sfd7ppesvy3dz5rbl2d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3loghiyju5k2shttps://bsky.app/profile/meaningness.bsky.social/post/3lo4arxlync25🆕 📺 Checks and balances between secular and religious power often make for functional societies. That isn't working for us now—maybe for the opposite reason than you'd expect? https://meaningness.substack.com/p/priests-and-kings01 May 2025 11:53 +0000at://did:plc:2kg7sfd7ppesvy3dz5rbl2d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo4arxlync25https://bsky.app/profile/meaningness.bsky.social/post/3lnuvzlguoc2f🆕 📺 New video! Nobility is not moral virtue. They are not in conflict; they may correlate, but they don't always coincide. Nobility is the proper matter of politics. https://meaningness.substack.com/p/nobility-and-virtue-are-distinct28 Apr 2025 13:52 +0000at://did:plc:2kg7sfd7ppesvy3dz5rbl2d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnuvzlguoc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/meaningness.bsky.social/post/3lnpter23ls2l🆕 📺 New video! A visual, kinesthetic, embodied experience 𐡸 A fish-eye lens and a magnifying glass 𐡸 The little clicker wheel 𐡸 Nurturing a plot of woodland 𐡸 Becoming the space, unstuck in time 𐡸 Freed up to play. https://meaningness.substack.com/p/what-is-stage-five-like26 Apr 2025 13:21 +0000at://did:plc:2kg7sfd7ppesvy3dz5rbl2d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnpter23ls2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/meaningness.bsky.social/post/3lnddohzmgc2s🆕 Suffering is never special ࿇ Opening your heart without an anesthetic ࿇ The Buddhist warrior’s path ࿇ Life in a charnel ground ࿇ The point is to cut the enemy: un-seeing ࿇ Gendered Buddhism ࿇ Are you ready to take a vow? https://meaningness.substack.com/p/living-beautifully-cutting-hard21 Apr 2025 14:09 +0000at://did:plc:2kg7sfd7ppesvy3dz5rbl2d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnddohzmgc2s