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.
02 / 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.
03 / 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.
04 / 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.
Follow the question that stays with you.
There’s more in the archive: lived experience, cultural detours, and the everyday work of taking each other seriously.