A READING GUIDE
You don’t need
a philosophy degree.
Just a question.
Four essays. Four ways into Radical Kindness. Start with the neighbor piece for a question you can take into your day, or follow whichever thread catches you.
Each essay opens directly on Substack. No required order.
01 / ETHICS YOU CAN USE
The Surprising Place to Start If You Want to Change the World
Wanting to change the world is one thing. Learning your neighbor’s name is a place to begin.
Start here for the bridge between a big moral question and a small, ordinary action.
Read on Substack02 / THE OVERTHINKING MIND
Erudition and Erosion
A Florida rainstorm. A passing insight. An argument with the part of your brain that thinks it’s a philosopher.
For the whimsy, the wandering mind, and the occasional overthinking.
Read on Substack03 / WHERE THE EMPATHY COMES FROM
Empathy Grown in the Darkness of Grief
Grief, lived experience, and the origins of a commitment to empathy.
For the personal history beneath the philosophy.
Read on Substack04 / EMPATHY AS REBELLION
PUNK PHILOSOPHY
The essay where the purpose of Radical Kindness came into focus: punk roots, empathy, and a refusal to treat kindness as weakness.
For the conviction that holds these different kinds of writing together.
Read on SubstackKEEP READING
Follow the question
that stays with you.
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