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Ross J. Edwards

How to Overcome Career Anxiety: Wittgenstein’s Advice

“I’ve made a mistake in my career.” I’ve tried to get rid of this thought for years.

Jun 20

How to Overcome Career Anxiety: Wittgenstein’s Advice

Jun 20

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Thoughts And Ideas

What Kind of Mindset Shift Do We Really Want?

Future-Oriented “Success”

Feb 12

What Kind of Mindset Shift Do We Really Want?

Feb 12

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Why Do We Worship Fame?

Growing up I had visions of what it would be like to lead a good life: to be praised. Specifically, to be thought of as a kind of god. Jim…

Jan 17

Why Do We Worship Fame?

Jan 17

Ross J. Edwards

We Need to Reclaim ‘Productivity’

Let’s talk about productivity. We all know that there’s a cottage industry on the internet around maximizing productivity. Lists of morning…

Jan 11

We Need to Reclaim ‘Productivity’

Jan 11

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Prayer for a New Year

The world is a gloomy wood Mapped by well-worn routes That justify our self-aggrandizing acts Of horrific exploitation

Dec 31, 2023

Prayer for a New Year

Dec 31, 2023

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Christmas

I see the sign of thunder Don’t make that sound, too loud! floating outside my window You have to be quiet now, daddy in pitch darkness…

Dec 19, 2023

Christmas

Dec 19, 2023

Ross J. Edwards

Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio: A Powerful Message for Parents

Guillermo Del Toro’s films do not always grab me — but his version of Pinocchio had me in the palm of its hand. I was charmed, perhaps…

Mar 10, 2023

Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio: A Powerful Message for Parents

Mar 10, 2023

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Watching Charlotte Well’s ‘Aftersun’ (2022) Over and Over Again

When someone takes their own life, all the interactions we had with that person are forever altered. We look back over every moment…

Jan 23, 2023

Watching Charlotte Well’s ‘Aftersun’ (2022) Over and Over Again

Jan 23, 2023

Ross J. Edwards

Socks

‘Start from the back,’ you say each day for weeks and weeks to your toddler’s patience stretched by pulling up her socks.

Jan 21, 2023

Socks

Jan 21, 2023

Ross J. Edwards

Why You Should Watch the Movie ‘All My Friends Hate Me’ (2021)

The 2021 film All My Friends Hate Me is one of the few movies in recent years I watched multiple times. It’s part of a growing trend we’ve…

Jan 19, 2023

Why You Should Watch the Movie ‘All My Friends Hate Me’ (2021)

Jan 19, 2023

Ross J. Edwards

Ross J. Edwards

I’m a philosophy PhD candidate at the New School in New York. I write mostly about how Wittgenstein's philosophy can be applied to everyday anxieties.

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