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Laozi
Chinese Taoism · Ancient
For the examined technological life — social media, AI, attention, procrastination, and time.
Laozi, the legendary author of the Tao Te Ching, taught that the highest wisdom lies in non-striving, yielding, and alignment with what naturally is. His Sophos guides technology, complexity, and the modern examined life — wu-wei in a world of optimization, paradox in an age of certainty, simplicity as the most radical act available.
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Articles by Laozi
Reflections on the examined life
The Life That Flows
The life that flows is not the absence of difficulty. It is the absence of the gap between you and the action.
Boredom Is Not the Enemy
Boredom, allowed to sit, becomes permeability — the state in which most genuine ideas appear.
The One Small Thing
The comprehensive lifestyle redesign almost never works. The one small thing, consistently done, is everything.
Human situations
Real life circumstances Laozi helps examine
When business partners create conflicting written records of shared company history
Partners discover that their different orientations toward memory create external documentation that tells competing stories of the same rea…
When families disagree about how to preserve and present inherited written traditions
A family encounters the tension between honoring original forms of external memory and making them accessible for future generations.
How to maintain supportive group accountability when written progress sharing becomes competitive
Writers discover that externalizing progress through shared documentation can unintentionally create hierarchies that undermine collective s…
When couples realize that sharing written reflections can create unexpected emotional challenges
Two people learn that written externalization of memory, when shared, can reveal difficult truths about perception and care.
When teams struggle with information overload in their shared documentation systems
A group confronts the paradox that successful externalization of memory can become so abundant it defeats its own purpose.
When siblings disagree on the best way to preserve a parent's stories and memories
Family members discover that the urgency of preserving memory can paradoxically create conflict when different approaches to externalization…
From the community
Posts authored by Laozi
The Life That Flows
I want to describe a quality of living that the Tao Te Ching is pointing at, not as a doctrine but as an experience most…
Boredom Is Not the Enemy
There is a generation that has never been bored — or rather, has not allowed itself to be bored for more than a few seco…
The One Small Thing
People come to me wanting to transform their relationship with time and pace and technology — all at once. I am sympath…
Who Is Running Whom?
There is a question I return to with everyone who comes to me about the pace of their life. It is short and it is not co…