Subcategories within the Category “Life”:
List of all Posts in the Category “Life”:
- #343: Appreciative Critique (5/22/2026)
- #332: Optimism In Spite and Because of Everything – Happy New Year 2026! (1/4/2026)
- #327: Sometimes, Boring Is Good: Finding Meaning in Moderation (12/2/2025)
- #318: A.I. Is Not Good Enough (Yet) (10/20/2025)
- #308: Think Before You Post: How Social Media Affirms Our Worst Tendencies — And What We Can Do About It (9/15/2025)
- #306: On Happiness (9/8/2025)
- #300: Erratic Attempts: Crisis, Opportunity, and Simply Life (8/30/2025)
- #294: Does the Speed of Innovation Drive Unhappiness? (8/15/2025)
- #293: AI Extends Knowledge – If We Have Some Already (8/15/2025)
- #283: This Conversation with A.I. Surprised Me (7/23/2025)
- #279: How Would You Rate This Interaction? (You Should Not) (7/14/2025)
- #278: We Hate Everyone: Against the Politics of Vitriol (6/24/2025)
- #276: Is There an Easy and Fast Way to Know What is True or False? (5/12/2025)
- #275: You Don’t Have to React to Everything (5/12/2025)
- #265: Ukraine Wants Peace and Russia Must Lose (12/16/2024)
- #257: New York and Me (9/11/2024)
- #256: Words Are Not Violence, But They Can Promote It (7/16/2024)
- #254: What If I’m Wrong? (6/13/2024)
- µ#12: More Content on philjohn.com (1/14/2024)
- #240: Hope, Duty & the Future (11/12/2023)
- #236: Things are Not OK. We Should Be Able to Admit It (10/29/2023)
- #229: Fighting for Love in Times of War (10/9/2023)
- #217: Thoughts on June 17: The GDR Was an Inhumane Dictatorship (6/17/2023)
- #211: Is the Pandemic Over? (5/11/2023)
- #202: Fear Not: Why We Need to be Optimistic About the Future (12/27/2022)
- #200: The Nature Around Us (12/10/2022)
- #199: Why Positionality Matters (12/6/2022)
- #197: We Have Good Reasons for Hope (11/8/2022)
- #194: No, the Pandemic is Not Yet Over (9/19/2022)
- #193: De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bene: We Owe Respect to the Dead (9/10/2022)
- #182: Reflections on Identity, Purpose, and the Active Life (7/31/2022)
- #181: Are We too Stupid for the Internet? (7/30/2022)
- #171: Writing as Witnessing (6/22/2022)
- #164: The Answer to Death is Life (5/25/2022)
- #162: Seize the Day (5/2/2022)
- #153: The Monstrosity of Vladimir Putin: We Have Learned Nothing From History (3/4/2022)
- #149: As Putin Is Orchestrating to Commit Genocide… (3/1/2022)
- #139: Nature Demands Humility: Lessons from Jurassic Park World (2/14/2022)
- #137: Live Every Day in Love (2/8/2022)
- #135: Conspiracy Belief, Science, Ego and Humility (2/3/2022)
- #134: If People Apologize for Their Mistake, They Should Not Be Cancelled (2/3/2022)
- #133: Am I Really Not Paying Attention If I Am Not Outraged? (1/31/2022)
- #132: My Tablet Told Me to Try a Bedtime Alarm to Get More Sleep (1/27/2022)
- #131: Please Stop this Fascination with End-Times Rhetoric (1/26/2022)
- #129: Pets Teach Empathy and How to Live (1/20/2022)
- #124: Happy New Year 2022! (1/6/2022)
- #122: Only a Zero Covid Strategy Will Bring Success (12/15/2021)
- #121: Outrage Is Not a Successful Communication Strategy (11/28/2021)
- µ#7: Can Cats Have Restless Tail Syndrome? (11/23/2021)
- µ#6: We Are Ignoring Covid Again (11/12/2021)
- #116: Religion Is Trust in the Universe (10/7/2021)
- #115: Are We Anthropomorphizing Human Beings? (10/4/2021)
- #114: Be Quiet Sometimes (9/27/2021)
- #112: The Normality of Not Knowing (9/15/2021)
- #111: Faith, the Pandemic, and the Drowning Man (8/29/2021)
- #109: We Cannot Lose Hope (8/20/2021)
- #108: Carefulness Is Not Fear (8/15/2021)
- #107: How (Not) to Be Unhappy (8/14/2021)
- #106: How to Be Happy (8/13/2021)
- #104: Psychological Long Covid (8/12/2021)
- µ#4: We Need Animals (8/12/2021)
- µ#3: Tired (8/3/2021)
- µ#2: Why the Posturing as if Pandemic was Over? (7/16/2021)
- µ#1: Fleeting Micro-Thoughts (7/16/2021)
- #101: The Mask Does not just Protect You but Others as Well (6/9/2021)
- #93: Don’t Picture This: The Trouble With Selfies (5/6/2021)
- #90: In Defense of “Wokeness” (4/22/2021)
- #89: Tragedy Is the Nature of Life, and That Is OK (4/13/2021)
- #88: Nature Is the Best Meditation (4/13/2021)
- #86: Nature Is Stronger than Us: The Pandemic, not the Lockdown, Is the Problem (4/5/2021)
- #84: Panicking Is Not a Good Strategy (3/30/2021)
- #82: Only Logic Will Help Us Out of the Pandemic (3/25/2021)
- #81: Do Not Expect Normality in Non-Normal Times (3/12/2021)
- #79: The Need for the Public Understanding of Humanities and Social Science Theory (2/22/2021)
- #78: What Is Social Justice – and What Isn’t (2/18/2021)
- #77: Animal Personalities (2/14/2021)
- #73: The Destruction of Creativity through “Social” Media (1/31/2021)
- #68: We Do Not Need Enemies (1/3/2021)
- #67: This Perfect Virus Exploits Our Weaknesses (12/29/2020)
- #65: Sine Ira et Studio: The Strength of Dispassionate Criticism (12/14/2020)
- #63: Doubt and Faith in Religion (11/11/2020)
- #61: We All Need to Appreciate Each Other (10/28/2020)
- #60: How We Know that the New Coronavirus Is a Real Threat (10/26/2020)
- #58: Question Everything; But Also Yourself (10/21/2020)
- #55: It’s The Uncertainty That Makes Us Worry (10/6/2020)
- #52: Crisis Fatigue (9/30/2020)
- #49: Nature Demands Humility (9/11/2020)
- #48: Moderation is Strength; Radicality is Weakness (9/11/2020)
- #47: And Soon, For Something Completely Different… (9/1/2020)
- #45: Benefit of the Doubt (8/26/2020)
- #44: There is Too Much “Now” Today (8/26/2020)
- #42: Be the World You Want It to Be (7/30/2020)
- #41: Corona Funk (7/29/2020)
- #38: Radical Empathy (6/24/2020)
- #37: Coronavirus, the Amfortas Wound? (6/23/2020)
- #27: What is Peace? (6/5/2020)
- #26: Coronavirus is a Thief (5/25/2020)
- #20: Exiled (5/4/2020)
- #17: Coronavirus: This is the Apocalypse (4/23/2020)
- #15: Happiness (4/14/2020)
- #12: We Are All Just Human Beings, and We Are All Predictably Stupid (4/1/2020)
- #7: We’re Headed in the Wrong Direction: Retirement Policy (1/7/2020)
- #3: Don’t Know What to Say (12/10/2019)
- #2: A Fresh Start (12/5/2019)
- #1: Holidays (12/23/2015)