The Mind at Large – Unbounded Life

The forgetting game

Posted on July 29, 2024August 30, 2024 by Chris Barclay

On daily walks, I often put on a Lex Fridman podcast or Sam Harris’s Making Sense. Both of these are long-form interviews, taking deep dives into the nature of human experience. But my guilty pleasure is a YouTube channel called Coming Home. These are stories from a wide range of people who recount their near-death […]

Finding your way home

Posted on August 19, 2023August 25, 2023 by Chris Barclay

The jungle is so loud at night. Through a series of increasingly poor decisions, I found myself stranded on a ledge in the darkness, high up in the wilds of Mt. Intanon, the highest mountain in Thailand. Alone and ill-prepared, I had lost my way back to the trailhead and run out of daylight. It […]