What's Next?
Announcements, and a look ahead
Thank you for spending another year with me! I have some exciting news to share with you before we wrap things up and begin 2025.
A new book
No, not this one, another one! That’s right, I published my second book! It’s a children’s book called Game in the Garden. I actually consider it a book for all ages, because I worked hard to build in multiple layers of meaning. Children can learn lessons about things like fairness and cooperation, while adults can read beneath the surface and reflect on the far-reaching lessons of evolutionary game theory.
Collaborations
Both announcing and intention-setting: In the coming year, I plan to use this platform for more collaborations with likeminded thinkers. I plan to post some dialogues and maybe even record some non-artificial podcast episodes with other philosophers, academics, and creatives from different fields.
Another book?? Kind of
My Substack blog is now almost four years old, and I have amassed quite a lot of writing which I think is pretty darn good. So I decided to publish an essay collection with some of my favorite work from the past few years. This is the first of what I hope will be a series of essay collections—supplements to other future books I plan to write. This book features a brand new introduction along with the previously released essays from my blog. Available on Amazon starting January 17th.
A tease
I have at least four ideas for books I’d like to write next. But I’m still deciding what to work on first, and I’m not ready to share many details about any of these projects. But here are some quick teasers:
An epistolary novel in which two real (but fictionalized) philosophers grow up, go to school, fall in love, and invent something world-changing.
An annotated edition of a brilliant old book, reinterpreted through a metamodern worldview and present-day quantum physics.
A book of political theory which challenges utilitarianism and offers a different approach based on “autonomy”.
An introduction to “serious play” and a collection of philosophical, spiritually-significant games.
Hope
This year was hard for a lot of people, for many reasons. I wish I could have reached more people with my words, and perhaps provided some much needed hope to those who needed it. But I will at least say it to you: Don’t give up.