Later this month, I’ll be teaching my dissertation chapter on grief  to a grad seminar of young bioethicists as part of a class session...

(Stick around for a sneak peek  at my latest manifesto!) It’s been a busy week onboarding at Hopkins and continuing to get settled in...

I’ve spent most of this week driving 1500 miles and moving into my new place in Baltimore, so this is just a quick update. I’ve started...

“I read a lot of books,” says Elon Musk. Apparently one of them is Superintelligence, the highly-influential book that AI moguls from Sam...

Maybe you’ve seen my Work-in-Progress talk on AI and the Future of Work. Maybe you even liked it! If so, I have good news: In less than a...

This week I gave a Zoom talk as part of the AI Futures Work-in-Progress Series at Indiana University (a thing I totally started but it’s...

The first “fun” feature I ever put on my website was Well-Being in the Wild. Since I was writing a dissertation on well-being anyway, I...

Two weeks ago, I had no idea how to use Adobe Premiere Pro. But now, I’m pretty good at Googling. Indiana University is holding a...

(Here’s part one btw.) We see this problem time and time again in the history of Western philosophy: We live in a society. (Surprise.)...

When you go to the hospital, we rarely have the resources to treat everyone as promptly and thoroughly as we’d like. So we have to make...

For the past month, I’ve been running an experiment. I started going to two therapists so we can form a consensus. Weirdly, this is kind...

If you’ve happened to take a course in intro ethics, you might have heard of a classic distinction between instrumental and intrinsic...

I had a really interesting conversation about art criticism this week. So here we go: What does it mean to be great at jazz? Look, I know...

Now that I’m back in Bloomington for a while, everyone has a ton of advice on how to present myself on the academic job market so that...

I’ve been playing a lot of Stellaris lately, but as a kid, the only computer game I really played much was Age of Empires II (AoE2, as in...

Neat! You can check out a free version of my paper “Mutual Aid as Effective Altruism” here. (The final, professionally edited and typeset...

Let me know what you think! I'm still figuring out how to summarize my research program and instill confidence I’ll be a “productive”...

I’ve been putting together a syllabus called Utopias that draws from a bunch of fields (philosophy, literature, anthropology…) to try to...

From a comedic storytelling showcase at Jackalope Theater in Tulsa, Oklahoma.