Daniel Gardner – Medium

Daniel Gardner

Pinned

Published in
The Spear and the Spoon

The Ground Zero Fallacy & the Banality of Heroism

It is easier to imagine the end of the world than an end to capitalism. So what if we imagine an alternative to the end of the world?

Apr 15, 2022

The Ground Zero Fallacy & the Banality of Heroism

Apr 15, 2022

Published in
The Spear and the Spoon

Cognitive Nutrition — Knowledge & the Internet

A guide to surviving the internet with cognitively nutritious thinking

May 24, 2022

Cognitive Nutrition — Knowledge & the Internet

May 24, 2022

Published in
The Spear and the Spoon

200 recommendations from 4 reviews on UK racial equality

Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister, recently attempted to assuage Black Lives Matters protestors that he was not a racist. He wrote an…

Jul 2, 2020

200 recommendations from 4 reviews on UK racial equality

Jul 2, 2020

Published in
The Spear and the Spoon

On Reading Factfulness by Hans Rosling

If we are to read truthfully, we should read with a sense of charity. We should work to understand the persons argument as they would want…

May 30, 2020

On Reading Factfulness by Hans Rosling

May 30, 2020

Published in
The Spear and the Spoon

The Anthropocene Challenge

The Age of the Anthropocene is a term from geology, referring to the most recent period of the earth’s history¹. Humanity is having such a…

Sep 30, 2018

Sep 30, 2018

Published in
The Spear and the Spoon

Comradely Greetings and The Banality of Heroism

A review of Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj

Sep 24, 2018

Comradely Greetings and The Banality of Heroism

Sep 24, 2018

Published in
The Spear and the Spoon

The Wickedness of the Anthropocene

“In an artificial world only extremists live naturally” - Paul Graham

Sep 24, 2018

Sep 24, 2018

Published in
The Spear and the Spoon

The Problem is not the Problem

There is a meme which circulates the internet of Captain Jack Sparrow from Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean series. In it he is quoted as…

Sep 23, 2018

The Problem is not the Problem

Sep 23, 2018

Published in
The Spear and the Spoon

Moral Reaction & the Challenge of the Anthropocene

We are now living in an Age of the Anthropocene, a geological age of man. This presents a new concept of humanity as an agent in the world…

Sep 23, 2018

Moral Reaction & the Challenge of the Anthropocene

Sep 23, 2018

Daniel Gardner

Daniel Gardner

Daniel is a philosopher trapped inside an accountant. He writes to demonstrate that some accountants know the value of things rather than their price.

Following

Help
Status
About
Careers
Press
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams