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2 weeks ago | 
lessfoolish.substack.com | Peter Limberg
This is a 4,400-word guide to help men respond—not react—to the potential for needless debate, petty status dynamics, and physical violence found in social fields where men with a certain threshold of testosterone gather.
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1 month ago | 
lessfoolish.substack.com | Peter Limberg
A common fallacy committed by life coaches, self-help gurus, and multi-level marketers—though not explicitly stated, yet indirectly expressed—goes like this:Premise 1: You are not living up to your “potential” (usually with a focus on financial potential). Premise 2: Doing [what the life coach recommends, which includes hiring them as a coach] will allow you to live up to your potential. Conclusion: Therefore, you must do [what the life coach recommends], or you will not live up to your potential.
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1 month ago | 
lessfoolish.substack.com | Peter Limberg
This “person” is a deepfake…It’s not real. "She" is pretty, though. She also seems friendly—like she wouldn’t judge a guy based on his job, bank account, or abdominal status. I bet she likes sweet guys who are a bit dorky and too shy to approach women in real life. Besides, she sees through all that superficial stuff and peers deeply into a man's potential, recognizing his true value.
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1 month ago | 
lessfoolish.substack.com | Peter Limberg |Paul Kingsnorth |Charles Eisenstein |Jasun Horsley
There are some people you should read if you're interested in the spiritual dangers emerging with AI and what some call “The Machine”—a self-perpetuating force, socially framed as technological progress, that has a “direction of travel” toward replacing nature with technology, eliminating tradition, and ushering in a post-human world. The best place to start is ’s excellent series on The Machine, soon to become a book.
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1 month ago | 
lessfoolish.substack.com | Peter Limberg
I am going to write a book expanding on the article “Based Definitions: A Philosophical Practice.” It was one of my favorite entries, and I believe more people would benefit from engaging with it. A summary:Own your words, own your philosophy. You can think beyond lexical definitions (the "official" ones found in a dictionary) or stipulative definitions (those imposed by ego, expecting others to adopt them).
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1 month ago | 
lessfoolish.substack.com | Peter Limberg
This entry is part of a series on “The Pull”: Preface. The Pull. Intro. Overcome The Pull. 1. The Road. 2. The Fronts. 3. The Tools. 4. The Practice. Conclusion. Beyond The Pull. You’re free. Congratulations. You made it to the other side. Something “popped.” No longer are you a slave to The Pull. You stopped feeding the spectacle—no longer mindlessly creating “content” or consuming it without true intentionality. You are solid in yourself, with a sovereign will and newfound agency to create what God asks of you.
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1 month ago | 
lessfoolish.substack.com | Peter Limberg
“Man always desires and hopes for something he cannot understand. No human desires and hopes are ever absolutely clear and distinct and precise, but always contain an idea of confusion, always refer to an object which is conceived confusedly. And for that reason and no other, hope is better than pleasure, because it contains that indefiniteness which reality cannot contain.” - Giacomo Leopardi“There's no hope.”Shut up. You're not talking about hope.
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2 months ago | 
lessfoolish.substack.com | Peter Limberg
"Philosophical counseling is to reason what psychotherapy is to emotions."I have this quote written in my notes, but I’ll leave it uncredited for now because I can’t remember if I read it somewhere, if someone told me, or if I came up with it myself. Regardless, it captures the spirit of philosophical counseling nicely—the inquiry genre I primarily engage in. The three inquiry genres are:CoachingPsychotherapyPhilosophical CounselingHere is a chart... I have been critical of coaching before.
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2 months ago | 
lessfoolish.substack.com | Peter Limberg |Ruth Gaskovski
This entry is part of a series on “The Pull”: Preface. The Pull. Intro. Overcome The Pull. Part 1. The Road. Part 2. The Frontlines. Part 3. The Tools. Part 4. The Practice. Conclusion. Beyond The Pull. The Pull is the subtle, unconscious force that draws you into the screen. I am writing this series as a practical guide to overcoming it for good—before it’s too late. In this entry, I’ll discuss the high-level roadmap needed. The best Substacks for developing a good relationship with The Pull is and by and .
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2 months ago | 
lessfoolish.substack.com | Peter Limberg
In Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, she implores us to face the complex challenges of the world without resorting to utopian escapism or doomer capitulation—simpler reactions compared to the courage required to stay with the trouble we are collectively in. I love the phrase and its overall sentiment, adopting it into my inquiry practice. Since inquiries often begin with something bothersome, I use the phrase: staying with the bother.