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The Many Faces

Of one idea

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Matt Malcom
May 29, 2026
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Good morning, philosophers.

In our last post I left you in the deep end of a pool. Backwards, upside down, blindfolded, reaching for certainty. Today I want to come back to that water with you, and turn you to the searching to see what was actually underneath it.

Here is what I came to, slowly: the thing I kept reaching for was the wrong thing.

The longer…

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