The Eternal Storm: War and the Philosophy of Human Conflict
An exploration of war through the lens of philosophy — from Heraclitus to Clausewitz, from just war theory to modern pacifism.
Systems thinking, deep reading, and the pursuit of mastery — by se7en.
I'm se7en — engineer, reader, chronic overthinker. This is where I write long-form essays on the ideas I can't stop thinking about. More about me →
An exploration of war through the lens of philosophy — from Heraclitus to Clausewitz, from just war theory to modern pacifism.
Harold Bloom argued that all writers live in dread of their predecessors. But what happens when the predecessor has read everything? A long essay on originality, voice, and what it now means to make something genuinely yours.
A deep dive into the compulsion to write, drawing on Orwell, Didion, King, Morrison, Rilke, and decades of psychological research — and the case for why every human being, not just writers, should pick up the pen.