In this section I've collected a number of sometimes-brief thoughts on various subjects. These were all written between 1997 and 2002; most of my public thinking since the beginning of 2003 has taken place in my LiveJournal.

• Older Thoughts
  • 03/17/97: What are we working towards?
  • 01/01/98: It's 1998. Do You Know Where Your Life Is At?
  • 03/29/98: On the Elusiveness of Personal Satisfaction
  • ??/??/98: Room to Think
• Thoughts from 2000
  • 01/03/00: When I Grow Up
  • 01/03/00: The Reverend David Safar
  • 01/04/00: Two Years Later: Where Have I Been?
  • 07/24/00: On the Nature and Scarcity of Drive
  • 08/07/00: More Thoughts On the Nature of Drive
  • 08/25/00: Drive's Relationship to Needs
  • 09/06/00: A Lesson Learned Late (footnotes)
  • 09/07/00: On the Nature of Love
  • 09/08/00: Where to From Here?
• Thoughts from 2001
  • 08/12/01: On Unemployment, the Fear of Mentropy [sic], and Being Chronically Single
  • 09/03/01: What's This? Me, In A Good Mood?
  • 09/06/01: Misery and Geekhood
  • 09/12/01: On Solitude
  • 09/13/01: On Terrorism, Racism, And Lots Of Other Words Ending In "-ism" (supplement)
• Thoughts from 2002
  • 01/07/02: On Returning to Academics
  • 01/08/02: On Curmudgeonhood
  • 01/11/02: On the Difficulty of Writing Without a Soul
  • 01/11/02: Writing For Writing's Sake
  • 01/11/02: On the Misnomerhood of "Total Immersion"
  • 01/14/02: Bits and Pieces On a Good-Mood Day
  • 01/16/02: I Fancy Myself a Writer
  • 01/16/02: On Poetry and Slavery to Rebellion
  • 01/16/02: On Unfulfilled and Undirected Potential
  • 05/29/02: Tetras in the Sea
  • 08/16/02: Weblog Entry
  • 08/17/02: Weblog Entry
• Newer thoughts at my LiveJournal
  
  
• 06/28/98: My Personal Philosophy

These are some of the things that were on my mind during the six years I kept these notes. At some point I hope to consolidate them and edit them for coherency, but for the moment they are preserved in their original condition.