An honest attempt at being human
Essays and conversations looking for wisdom, self-acceptance, noticing self-deception and navigating life between its scripts.
Robert Meets World Podcast
Conversations that refuse to stick in a lane
A conversation with a matchmaker about why dating apps optimize for the wrong thing bleeds into Jungian alchemy, then into mimetic theory, then into what AI agents will do to human loneliness.
Guests range from founders who’ve sold companies to psychoanalysts to a guy who ran a men’s festival on his family farm, and the show follows wherever the thread leads rather than sticking to a format.
If you want tidy takeaways, this isn’t that. If you want to sit inside a real, winding inquiry into how people actually build meaning, businesses, and identities, this is.
Writing
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The Wi-Fi Password is ‘heartcenter’
I’m sitting on a worn-out, low, crimson couch cushion. Around me are multi-dimensional prisms, astrology books, tarot cards, and metaphysical…
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Dress Rehearsal for Life; ambition, self-mythology & a cheque that carried the weight of the world
“You know that you are a motivational speaker, right?” She said. Her affectionate tone carried a tenderness, half-joking, that I…
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Sidemen Is a Good Place To Do Nothing
I’m sitting on the patio of Buntera Homestay in Sidemen, Indonesia. Staring at the intertwined plant forest in front as…
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Ain’t No Economy Like the Attention Economy: on leaving (but never actually leaving)
How the hell am I back on here?, the thought arrived, as an accordian menu folded open to reveal a…