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Security of Insecurity

By Ben | November 26, 2024October 31, 2025 by Ben

Facing responsibility, it’s securing to be insecure. You are free to lay, wallowing in inertia. You are weightless. It can’t fall on you. Seems we often insinuate this soothing self doubt by practicing insincere self sleuthing. This is how we shelter ourselves from the thunderstorms of squirming that responsibility from closer to truth self-knowledge brews. Responsibility is not scary just because of its demands, but it’s revealing nature. We are so terrified to be frauds.…

Humbleness of Truth

By Ben | November 21, 2024June 19, 2025 by Ben

I often hear echoes of unfounded certainty. If that certainty morphs into an assertion, it bounces farther. At best these perceptions are deep, but never wide enough to justify the asserted sureness. This type of certainty seems to give some stability, but encroaches harmfully. I get terrified when I see it invading, soon enough building up an evasion of breadth. I think instead we should all be fortified with layers of humbleness when approaching truth…

Projections Reflect

By Ben | November 9, 2024June 19, 2025 by Ben

In perception of entities, generally (but not limited to) alive ones, moments of ambiguity come. These create gaps in a mind. If you care, the disconnect might leave you unsettled. The weight of the depth and breadth of all and each of the broken pathways can be flooding. There are endless possibilities. In these conditions it seems it’s my (and perhaps human) nature to have no choice but to bridge one. The choice you make…

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How can only one be right? Morning thoughts on religious perennialism

By Ben | August 4, 2024December 19, 2025 by Ben

Thank you @ pops for introducing me to the concept of perennialism, and for all of our discussions for hours and hours. Religious perennialism interests me, and is an appealing solution to a question that has been troubling me for a while. My understanding of it is that major religions and those with spiritual experiences are all connecting to a common truth. There’s a large set of religions each with their own central beliefs and…

Projects

Octordly

By Ben | December 8, 2022September 28, 2024 by Ben

Weekend project from winter 2022. Think Wordle, but 8x. Favorite review: You can check it out in the app store here.

Projects

EveryTwo (Acquired)

By Ben | August 2, 2021January 13, 2026 by Ben

EveryTwo is the first app I made. Took eight months of work – enjoyed every moment. The core concept is budgeting built for those who get paid biweekly. This helps to avoid over-draft fees, visualize time periods easier, and reach goals easier. My step-mom (love you) came up with the idea, and was and is the #1 user and #1 tester (: See more about the topic in these articles: creating a biweekly budget, guide…