Archive - Stoic Observations

Are You An OODA Buddha?

Jul 18 •

Michael David Cobb Bowen

Indefinite Optimism

Decisions vs Commitments

Jul 16 •

Michael David Cobb Bowen

The US & Israel Sitting in a Tree

The wrong, stupid focus.

Jul 12 •

Michael David Cobb Bowen

Doomscrolling for tearjerkers.

Jul 11 •

Michael David Cobb Bowen

Turn and Face the Strange

Life beyond C Major

Jul 9 •

Michael David Cobb Bowen

The Helicopter Government

We are gripped too tightly.

Jul 7 •

Michael David Cobb Bowen

My Teenaged Bedroom

An American Thing

Jul 5 •

Michael David Cobb Bowen

June 2025

American Neo-Feudalism

Stop, children, what's that sound?

Jun 30 •

Michael David Cobb Bowen

The End of the Islamic Bomb

Probably maybe.

Jun 27 •

Michael David Cobb Bowen

Transcendant Culture

More than flavor. More than mimetic.

Jun 24 •

Michael David Cobb Bowen

Why I Fought Woke

The fraught dynamism of intellectual discovery.

Jun 23 •

Michael David Cobb Bowen

Transhumanist AI Fiction

Adrian Tchaikovsky's at it again

Jun 19 •

Michael David Cobb Bowen

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