Garrett Kincaid
I’m WRITING to embrace uncertainty and live with clarity. Every month, I update my LOGS with my latest batch of half-epiphanies. And if an idea is good enough, I’ll add it to my library of APHORISMS. For some context, you can read a bit ABOUT me.
I’m also COACHING to help online writers become better self-editors.
With everything I write, my goal is to help you practice introspection. If you want my essays delivered straight to your inbox, subscribe to The Intronaut. Every issue includes a Springboard, which is a carefully crafted question to help you dive inwards.
Featured Essays
My Best APHORISMS
- There is no best way to go, but there is a worst way: to follow.
- Be an intellectual nomad; don’t dwell in dogma.
- Change is the only certainty. To be certain of anything else is to be in denial of change.
- We humans have these infinite concepts of what could be, yet we are stuck in the finite concrete of reality.
- The only path to greener grass is to tend to your lawn.
- Success comes from repeated failure. If you want fertile soil, mix in manure.
- Say what you know is unsaid.
My Latest LOGS
March 2
The concept of Original Sin is the result of species-level confabulation (to fill in gaps of memory by fabrication). We do not know from whence we came or how we were made, only how it feels to live. Since we perceive evil and pain and suffering in the world and within ourselves, we have confabulated an origin story to justify our depravity (a false depravity that comes from an avoidably low level self-esteem): Original Sin.
Glacial Parenting
The glacier engenders the river that erodes the valley.
The river thanks the glacier and gives it credit: "You shaped this valley and gave me life. All I have accomplished I owe to you."
The glacier objects: "The marks you have made on this earth are all your own. All I did was give you enough to get going. You have done the rest, and you could have done it without me."
This is the best and simplest model I've conceived of for good parenting. And really, both are true; the river could not have done it without the glacier, and the river is due credit for what it has done.
There is an island too small to stand on at the center of the infinite sea. That's what you're searching for: Truth within the fabric of reality. That's what you're searching for, but you will never find it; you must rest in comfort with the pursuit itself. And if it suits you, hope that the afterlife may reveal what you sought in life.
We humans are constantly translating the ineffable to the physical, and back again. Every spoken word is made flesh. It begins as a formless thought, then crystalizes into an idea, then it becomes matter in the world through speech. The friend who receives your words-on-air, does the reverse process — from the physical to the ineffable.
