The Pocket Philosopher
Matt MalcomFor people who made it — but lost themselves in the climb. Come here to reconnect.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 268 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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Designing Your Life
Philosophers,
Last week we explored how Ikigai can redirect us away from the endless treadmill of optimization culture and into the work of designing our life around our authentic self and goals.
The Pocket Philosopher is a reader-suppo...
🏔️Start Here.
Welcome to The Pocket Philosopher.
New here? These three essays are the best place to begin.
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About Matt — Matt’s journey from the mountain top back to himself.
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I Don’t Want to Kill Anyone — The founding essay. What TPP is about...
You don't need a new job
Many people assume they are unhappy because they have the wrong job.
Wrong field. Wrong company. Wrong title. Wrong pay. The assumption is that if you can just optimize your external circumstances enough, something will click into place in...
Good enough
Philosophers,
The searching for certainty took longer to stop than I would like to admit. Years longer. I want to tell you how it actually unfolded — not as theory, but as a sequence of months in my actual life.
When I first left the wor...
The Many Faces
Of one idea
Good morning, philosophers.
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