Brandon Dang

your relationship with the divine always takes the shape of your relational patterns in general.

Antimemetic World Is A Fun Place to Explore Ideas

I want to keep writing books. I want to keep showing up here. I want to keep exploring ideas. Nadia’s book has helped me develop a more coherent understanding of what I enjoy about ideas. I enjoy ideas that people don’t like talking about. I like the uncomfortable truths. I like the scary questions.... See more

A psychotechnology is anything that can alter your relationship with self, from mainstream talk therapy, to all kinds of meditation, to newfangled forms of therapy like IFS, etcetera. Different psychotechnologies will be more or less appropriate to a given individual. Some will be powerful in combination. There is no one “path,” although some... See more

It’s disorienting that I don’t really have the experience of “choosing” anymore. It’s also hard to even really imagine the old way of being, which involved mentally simulating some future existence I might want to have, and then mentally flailing against the present moment in a futile effort to drag myself towards that imagined future.