Commonplace book
Working notes and open marginalia
42
active entries
6
inquiry threads
Field observations
Psychology & Habit
On the persistence of tacit assumptions
When examining how routines harden into convictions, we often overlook the quiet scaffolding of unspoken background beliefs that sustain them over decades.
Philosophy of Mind
Attention as an act of selection
Consciousness does not merely mirror the environment; it edits relentlessly, discarding vast realms of sensory input to construct a manageable narrative.
Human Behavior
The comfort of familiar dilemmas
We frequently choose the recurrence of a known friction over the disorienting freedom of an entirely unmapped alternative.
— Observation
Pressed fern frond found in a 1924 edition of Spinoza. Margin note reads: 'Order is merely the shadow we cast upon the infinite.'
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