Archive - Tanner Gesek

Holy Fools: Part 2

How early Christianity eluded Moloch

Aug 10 •

June 2025

The NYC Italian Mafia

The mechanics of mafia (tech & otherwise) capacity for "quick and quiet coordination"

Jun 27 •

What It Feels Like To Improvise On Piano

Metaphors for the creation experience

Jun 25 •

May 2025

The Work Is Not Recovery

And other hard-won lessons

May 30 •

How to Care About Things

And why to cultivate a vivid emotional world

May 10 •

4 lessons from the commune the U.S. destroyed

May 7 •

Persuasive Moral Slop

A quick primer on sophistry

May 3 •

April 2025

A cautionary tale of the secretive Washington DC "politico-religious" society

Apr 20 •

March 2025

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