Deepest Turtle
Deepest Turtle
Rigorous thinking applied to life's harder questions
A curated knowledge base of articles, videos, insights, and tools (including my own) for life's harder questions:
career, health, money, relationships, meaning.
The premise: there's no need to count on self-proclaimed gurus, doctrine, or trendy advice to live wisely, successfully.
Well-documented evidence and reasoning, followed all the way down, are enough.
If any of these resonate, you're in the right place:
You're having difficulty reconciling traditional religious ideas with the modern world. You feel that some of the time-honored ideas have value, but they are in serious need of updating.
You're drowning in productivity hacks, meditation apps, and wellness trends. But they aren't working for you. You want depth, rigor, and honesty, not wishful thinking, handwaving or sales pitches.
You feel that the world is just lunging from crisis to crisis in spite of unimaginable progress. Something's clearly missing: a globally shared yet personal understanding of life, the world, and your place in it.
"The unexamined life is not worth living," Socrates said. But in our age of information overload and spiritual confusion, how do you examine life without falling into either nihilism or irrationality?
Free resources combining philosophy, science, and practical wisdom.
An Engineer's Search for Meaning — A systematic, rigorous exploration of meaning, purpose and hope in an uncertain universe.
Online tutorial/app to introduce four short practices designed to orient your mind towards the meaning, purpose and hope that already exists in the universe. Based on time-tested ancient techniques, but solidly grounded in scientific ideas. Free to try, works on any device, no download required.
Try the App → 3Original writings on consciousness, AI, mindfulness, and practical wisdom—where engineering meets philosophy.
Read Essays →If you're like me, you don't like to just take someone else's word for it. You want to make up your own mind. Here are some resources to help you.
Explore ideas about reality, perception, and systems.
People with deeper expertise and insights.
This isn't a quick fix. It's a journey. And it compounds over time.
Gain clarity and confidence through a rigorous, first-principles-based understanding of reality.
Develop evidence-based habits for attention, reflection, and decision-making that actually stick.
Navigate work, relationships, and choices with greater clarity, less anxiety, and more alignment.
Arrive at a personal philosophy of living that defines meaning and hope in a way that's believable and actionable.