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The Compatibility of Self-Esteem and Buddhist No-Self (December, 2021)
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March 2023

Friends' Houses and Bechers' Industrial Typologies
Revisiting a black and white photo series I shot last year through a retrospective on Hilla and Bernd Becher
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July 2022

San Francisco Summer
October 2021
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June 2022

[thoughts] The criminal life of NFTs: 5 loopholes
Authorship and originality are the strongest drivers of value in art.
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[thoughts] How have forms of art changed? What new capabilities do NFTs give artists?
Crypto art is continuous, while traditional art is discrete:
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August 2021

Kingdom of Rhode Island
A series of artwork and contexualizing essay challenging viewers to perceive maps as indexical, selective, and colonialist.
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My Favorite Books - a Reflection on Culture and Identity
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Season of Migration to the North, The Fatherland, Americanah, The Great Gatsby
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Modernizing the New York Energy Grid under Reforming the Energy Vision
Challenges of our grid and lessons learned from the Brooklyn-Queens Demand Management Program
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Features of morality and their relation to happiness according to Kant in the "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals"
Does his conception match what you understand to be the nature of morality? And is it a conception that ultimately makes sense?
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Nietzsche's Will to Power
What is Nietzsche's general, philosophical view about the relation between value and the will, or, more particularly, the will to power?
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Aristotle and the Good Life
What is Aristotle's conception of the good life and his argument, based on man's distinctive capacities, in favor of this conception?
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Absolute Difference in Tayeb Salih's "Season of Migration to the North"
Salih's novel is about illusory assumptions of insurmountable difference based on culture, gender, nationality, or race.
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