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About

A B O U T

Hi, I’m Garrett Kincaid.

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On May 25, 2022, I graduated from college with a degree in quantitative finance. A week later, I landed in Reykjavik to start a 3-month backpacking in Iceland. There, I connected with Nature and myself.

That adventure affirmed how I already saw life: Every moment bursts with beauty and opportunity.

Now, I’m just trying to not forget that. I returned from Iceland to start my career — not as a banker, trader, or consultant but as a writer.

When I write, I remember. I write so that I don’t lose sight of what matters. I write to explore my inner world and connect with others — to connect with you. So, thank you for being here.

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Speak your latent conviction. . . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”

Core Ideas and Related Writing

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The following ideas are central to my personal philosophy and motivate much of my writing.
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Our greatest inhibitions are self-delusion and -distraction. The antidote is introspection.

“Our Screwed-Up Sense of Presence”

“How to Handle Desire”

“Face the Music: My Leadership Philosophy”

“Where is the Greenest Grass?”

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Nothing is certain. At best, what we know is conditional.

“The Bystander’s Fallacy”

“Returning to Civil Discourse”

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We are ends in ourselves and autonomous moral agents.

“Intersections and Detours”

“PEMDAS and the Categorical Imperative”

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Stillness is a prerequisite for freedom and creativity.

“Get Going! (But for the Going, Not the Getting)”

“Introspection in Isolation”

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Life is a gift, and death is an essential part of life.

“Thus Spoke the Daniels”

“Sisyphus in the Sunshine”

“A Reason to Act”

“On Entropy”

Contact

garrett@garrettkincaid.com

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📩 Feel free to email me. Share your thoughts, feedback, ideas — anything! I’d love to have a conversation.
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