The Book of Principles

What is The Book of Principles?

The Book of Principles is a series of posts on individual concepts or ideas. Taken together, these concepts can provide a cohesive worldview, or at least as cohesive a worldview as one can have in these crazy times.

Each post can be read on its own, but they will often contain links and callbacks to previous concepts, as there is some element of stacking. So please explore - feel free to dig in wherever you are interested, or start at the beginning:

The Book of Principles

#1 - There is Truth

To establish a set of principles, we have to start with the basics and build on them from there. As we put these pieces together, the tower that we are building should come into view. That tower is a worldview - or at least the base of one. It will still look different for each and every one of us, but they will all have a common core…

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3 years ago · Ben Mumma

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About the Author

Hi there! My name is Ben Mumma - I work in tech and like to read and write in my spare time. One of my most definitional traits is that I strive for the truth, and have little patience for those who obscure it or prioritize things like wealth and status above it. Hence The Book of Principles is my tale of hard-fought learnings as I’ve tried to understand the world better.

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