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  • Why a new blog?

    23 août 2026

    So after 18 years I concluded the program of "The Joy of Poverty" at https://riswey.blogspot.com/ . This blog I realised was the Closed Hand, seeking to grasp something tangible about the world. But of course there is a problem with this: how does it...

  • The post that ended the Joy of Poverty

    23 août 2026

    So here is the post that ended the previous 18 years of blogging on Joy of Poverty at riswey.blogspot.com https://riswey.blogspot.com/2026/01/why-this-blog-is-pointless.html Written after internally opening my hand at 3am. Why this blog is pointless....

  • The Ego is the Self Model

    23 août 2026

    I have taken a bit of a sabbatical and with Claude as my research assistant looking up existing material have dived deeper into many of the issues that were emerging in the previous blog. Can you know something that you do not know? Of course not. If...

  • The Inside and the Outside

    18 septembre 2026

    In the spirit of the Open Hand I should have got bored of dichotomies, that is trying to split the world into two halves: a this and a that. But they do seem to remain useful at this point in time. So it is often nodded toward, but never clear that the...