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I’m a practical philosopher - I research wisdom practices from different eras
and cultures, explore them in my life, and interview others to see how they
helped or harmed them. I’ve written and edited four books, and co-write a weekly
newsletter on psychedelic and ecstatic ethics and harm reduction, which you can
sign up for below.

I am director of the Challenging Psychedelic Experiences Project, which
researches challenging psychedelic experiences, and what helps people who have
them. Find out more here: https://challengingpsychedelicexperiences.com/

‘Jules reminds us philosophy is not just about analysis. It’s also about the
good life.’ Matthew Syed




 


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Feb 25, 2023

Stoicism and the ancient art of memorization
Feb 25, 2023


This is an excerpt from my first book, Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous
Situations, which explores how people use practices from ancient Greek
philosophies in modern life.

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Feb 25, 2023

Feb 17, 2023

Tics, TikTok and the teen mental health crisis
Feb 17, 2023


What do you get if you cross the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual with High
School Musical? TikTok! Occasionally some data appears that looks so awful it
makes you do a doubletake. That was the case for me this week, when the Centre
for Disease Control released data suggesting that American teen girls are
‘engulged in a wave of despair and violence’. Apparently 59% of teenage girls
felt persistently sad or hopeless, and one in three considered suicide.

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Feb 17, 2023

Feb 10, 2023

Want to counter Andrew Tate? Reclaim the BMW (basic moral wisdom)
Feb 10, 2023


It’s every liberal parent’s nightmare. One day they happen to glance at their
14-year-old son’s laptop, and they see he is watching videos by Andrew Tate, the
mullah of misogyny. They start to notice red flags in their son’s conversation:
‘bitches’, ‘choke-holds’, ‘feminism is cancer’, ‘Hitler wasn’t all bad’. Could
their sweet little Quentin have been radicalized by the online far-right
manosphere?

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Feb 10, 2023

Feb 3, 2023

Ketamine: psychedelics meet hyper-capitalism
Feb 3, 2023


Ketamine clinics are booming across the US. According to psychedelic fund
PsyMed, there were around 20 ketamine clinics in 2019. By the end of last year,
there were reportedly over 600 independent ketamine clinics, as well as chains
like Mindbloom, Field Trip and Delic with multiple clinics and home delivery
services.

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Feb 3, 2023

Jan 21, 2023

Accelerationism, amphetamine philosophy, and the Death Trip
Jan 21, 2023


This is a story about dangerous ideas, and words’ magical power to heal and to
harm. It’s about AI, Charles Manson, dubstep, Neo-Nazis, occultism, and a lot of
amphetamine, but it’s mainly about Nicholas Land.




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Jan 21, 2023

Jan 7, 2023

Have we reached peak ‘entrepreneur’?
Jan 7, 2023


Being an entrepreneur is arguably the highest status job in the world at the
moment. In the 1960s, it was the rock star. In the 1980s-1990s, investment
bankers were the ‘masters of the universe’, the object of cultural fascination
(and loathing), depicted in books like Bonfire of the Vanities or American
Psycho. Now? No one could give a crap about investment bankers — they’re
souped-up traders who bet with other people’s money and the only thing they
invent are bullshit derivatives. But the entrepreneur? The ‘founder’? All kneel
before their genius.

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Jan 7, 2023

Dec 23, 2022

Are Digital Nomads harming our host countries?
Dec 23, 2022


At the moment I live in a town in Costa Rica called La Fortuna. There was
nothing much here apart from farming until the 1980s, when the nearby volcano of
Arenal erupted, and it kept on erupting for the next 20 years. Suddenly all the
springs and rivers around Arenal warmed up and became thermal baths. There was a
thermal bath boom, a spa-rush, as hotels and spas scrambled to grab access to
the springs and sell it to tourists. Today, La Fortuna is one of the most
popular towns in one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world.
Everything is booming, until the volcano erupts again.

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Dec 23, 2022

Dec 16, 2022

The Religion of the Future Police
Dec 16, 2022


In 2015, Google engineer Anthony Levandowski started The Way of the Future, a
church to worship super-intelligent AI. And now we have the Religion of the
Future Police, began by former Google manager Malcolm Collins and his wife
Simone.

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Dec 16, 2022

Dec 9, 2022

Huge trial finds mindfulness makes some teenagers’ mental health worse
Dec 9, 2022


Anyone hoping to ‘solve’ the mental health crisis should think very carefully:
am I going to make it worse? Unfortunately, every decade a new intervention
becomes the hot new thing, the magic bullet that is going to save the world, and
the people promoting it become wide-eyed evangelists. ‘We are saving the world!
We are doing such important work!’ Such is their enthusiasm, they never stop to
ask, ‘is it possible this intervention will harm some people?’

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Dec 9, 2022

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