Fix Twenty Minutes and You Fix Your Life

Peterson's How to Plan Your Life, reduced to what you can act on: the arithmetic of the repeated moment, standing at the boundary, and aiming your…

Oct 7 • Michal Kalinowski

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September 2026

Your Brain Has a Press Secretary, and It Never Tells You the Real Reason

Practical consequences of Simler and Hanson's The Elephant in the Brain, from reading a room's body language to working out what a credential is…

Sep 30 • Michal Kalinowski

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Stop Asking Who You Are. Start Asking What You've Refused to Look At.

Six things worth doing from Jordan Peterson's Personality and Its Transformations, from forcing a goal down to a physical action to claiming the traits…

Sep 20 • Michal Kalinowski

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Huxley's The Doors of Perception: a study guide to the reducing valve

A companion for anyone reading Huxley's 1954 mescaline essay, or about to. The briefing I wish I had, structured notes, connections to six other books…

Sep 17 • Michal Kalinowski

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Stop Collecting Ideas. Build a Philosophy That Holds Together.

Aristotle's system, from logic to ethics to politics, gives you an architecture for judging ideas

Sep 10 • Michal Kalinowski

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The Philosopher Who Keeps Burying His Undertakers

Every few centuries, something seems to end Aristotle. He keeps coming back.

Sep 9 • Michal Kalinowski

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August 2026

I Am Building the Education I Should Have Built Years Ago

You have finished books you can no longer explain. So had I, for years. This is the system I built once I stopped pretending otherwise.

Aug 26 • Michal Kalinowski

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The Rebuttal That Doesn't Quite Land

Alister McGrath is the critic Richard Dawkins was least prepared to answer. He read the same evidence, reached a different conclusion, and wrote a…

Aug 25 • Michal Kalinowski

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Reading Dawkins After You've Already Left

The God Delusion gets natural selection and moral progress right, but argues against a caricature of serious theology. A read from someone who left…

Aug 11 • Michal Kalinowski

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July 2026

Eight Lectures and a Dead Doctor

Dr Stephen Hicks' Logic course at Peterson Academy, and the two-year case of Ignaz Semmelweis that shows what rigorous reasoning can do, and where it…

Jul 26 • Michal Kalinowski

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The Most Dangerous People Are Not the Angry Ones

Will Storr's The Status Game argues righteousness, not anger, is the most dangerous social force, because moral status games have no natural stopping…

Jul 12 • Michal Kalinowski

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June 2026

Your Moral Convictions Are Not What You Think They Are

Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind: why moral reasoning works like a press secretary rather than a judge, and what six moral foundations explain about…

Jun 27 • Michal Kalinowski

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