The Metaphor
James Taylor ForemanReality is narrative and our only job is to make it beautiful.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 119 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 11 days ago |
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I wrote a piece about how there is a huge and mostly unidentified group of thinkers who were secretly influenced by Jordan Peterson (me). They don’t tend to identify themselves because associating yourself with Jordan Peterson has become lo...
Cowboys and Indians
This is the first entry in a series called American Archetypes, where and I explore artifacts of the unique mythos of Americana. Check out Eddie’s first entry in the series here.
When we would play cowboys and Indians as kids, you...
A New Wild West in the Middle
Note: This was originally published in The Dispatch as a part of the “Where I’m From” series.
There was a time when Louisiana was considered part of “The Wild West.”
Men came here from the colony states looking for frontier opport...
This Is Not the Dunning–Kruger Effect
This is:
The first image is meant to illustrate the arrogance of beginners (mount stupid), the despair of intermediates (valley of despair) and finally the slow rise of actual competence along a long tail.
Feels right, doesn’t it? It’s ca...
Cortisol Is a Bad Metaphor for Stress
You wouldn’t say that the Colorado River stressed the otherwise faultless surface of Arizona. We tend to use a vaguely artisan verb: Carve. The Colorado River carved, over millions of years, the Grand Canyon.
Language is so perfectly revea...
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Cajun Catholic. Southern Gothic. Studied philosophy, worked in Silicon Valley, now I'm back in Louisiana. Reality is narrative and our only job is to make it beautiful.
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