Contents
Book I. Introduction and Preliminaries
§i. Preface§ii. Introduction§iii. Editing§iv. Omitted or Missing Pieces§v. Preliminaries§vi. Certification§vii. Issue I. Velocity of Significance and Ideation§viii. Issue II. Abandoning Equality§ix. Human Shortcomings§x. Assumption Elimination§xi. Humans are Animals
Book II. Another Ethic
§i. Nature and Design§ii. Imagination and Filtration§iii. Constraint and Determinism§iv. Procrastination§v. Architecture of Ethics§vi. Situations and Significance§vii. Truth and Honesty§viii. The Comprehensible and the Incomprehensible and Social Alignment§ix. Consilience and Authentication§x. Development of Desire§xi. Evaluative Concepts§xii. Inferring to Moral Conclusions§xiii. Natural Diversity and Moral Diversity§xiv. The Distant Future, Legacies, and Morality
Book III. Living Autobiography
§i. Living Will§ii. Living Autobiography––– Portraits and Profiles§iii. ThoughtStreamTM (Thinking Shares)––– (Nov 7th, 2022 to Present)––– (Aug 18th to Nov 17th, 2022)§iv. SocialNuggetsTM (Experience Shares)––– (Oct 20th, 2021 - Present)––– (July 3rd, 2020 - Sep 1st, 2021)––– (Dec 12th, 2018 - July 3rd, 2020)§v. Open Health and Identity (Bodily Shares)§vi. Nature (Spatial Shares)§vii. Reading (Learning Shares)§viii. InkyFibers™ (Writing Shares)––– Site History (Writing Progressions)§ix. MediaClusters™ (Photo/Media Album, Life Evidence)§x. A Modern Homesteader (Draft Autobiography)
Book IV. Life Categories | Priorities
Life Categories | PrioritiesThe Personal Form and Its PurposesRelated AccomplishmentsI. Cycles and Shifts (Calendar)––– Constraint and Determinism––– The Calendar SolvedII. Planning and Visualization––– Imagination and Filtration––– Constraint and Determinism––– Procrastination––– Strategies for Managing Procrastination, Part One––– Life Goals and Blemishes You Can’t Deal WithIII. Fitness––– Sports and FitnessIV. Music and Art––– MusicV. Humor, Fun and Enjoyment––– Short StoriesVI. Property and Organization––– Land in Anchorage––– Human BankingVII. Meditation, Mood, Habit, and Routine––– MeditationVIII. Livelihood––– Work and Career Recommendations––– Related Accomplishments––– Professional Resumé––– Human Banking––– Frugal Living––– Inexpensive EnergyIX. EnvironmentX. Cleanliness, Health and Hygeine––– Open Health and Identity––– Stress Checklist––– Sensory ChecklistXI. Mind and Mental Development––– Rational Times––– Inky Fibers––– Reading––– Mathematics––– The Burden of Having Too Many Ideas––– School Improvements––– Methods of Diagramming and VisualizationXII. Relationships––– Com––– Sexuality––– Cults––– Advantages and Expectations––– Humans in Cans––– Subtraction––– Politics in Alaska––– Criminal Law––– Civil Law––– The Value of Social PlatformsXIII. Rest and Rejuvenation––– MeditationXIV. Nutrition––– Veganism and Vegan RecipesXV. Outdoors and Travel––– Nature––– Wildlife––– Off Grid Living in Alaska––– Foraging––– Camping and Homelessness
Book V. Conclusion
$i. Conclusion§ii. Post Script
Book VI. Appendices
§i. Appendix I.––– Bibliography, Citing and Referring––– Reading––– Library§ii. Appendix II.––– Notes––– Glossary, Coinages––– Terms and Conditions––– Privacy Policy––– Index
Museum
Artwork
§i. Photography§ii. Fashion§iii. Filmography and Cinematography
Chronology
Series
Thoughtstream™SocialNuggets™Vegan RecipesCivil LawCriminal LawLegal RecorderLand in AnchorageListsShort StoriesOpen Health and Identity (Bodily Shares)School ImprovementsRationalTimes™Portraits and ProfilesOff Grid Living in AlaskaForaging On My PropertyPolitics in Alaska
2024
Cosmological Arguments for a Diety and Other Related Arguments Originating in Myth
2023
Simple Solution for Creating New ReligionsThe Calendar SolvedExecutive Proposal to Correct Salesperson to Technologist RatiosInexpensive EnergyThe Value of Social PlatformsTruth and HonestyThe Comprehensible and the Incomprehensible and Social AlignmentConsilience and AuthenticationDevelopment of DesireYou Did Not CareWorthlessnesses of Normal Social BehaviorGenerals, Presidents, Chiefs, and HierarchiesThe Arbitrary Scope of ScienceFrugal LivingSexualityMethods of Diagramming and VisualizationAdvantages and ExpectationsDescriptive Typological Systems and Wanting to Know PeopleLife Goals and Blemishes You Cannot Deal With
2022
CampingCultsFundamental ProblemsProfessional ResuméWork and Client RecommendationsHuman BankingSubtractionFalse and Hidden Alaska, and its Lackluster TourismEstablishment ReviewsAlaskan Travel Advice for MariahA Modern Homesteader Book DraftCertification RequirementsBio and StatsStress ChecklistMathematicsNatureWildlfeMediaClustersTM
2021
Nature and Design (Light Blue Notebook)MediaClustersTM
2020
Vegan RecipesMusicHumans in Cans
2019
Anchorage's Never Ending Crime Prevention LoopPersonal FormThe Dark Green NotebookVideo ListsMemeticClusters™WordlyCoinages™InkyFibers™Stuck Between a Moose and a Winterbear
2018
Retaining Your Sense of Intelligence Among Other Smart PeopleWhat is the Importance of Logical Reasoning in Critical Thinking?What is a Genius and Who Can Become One?Why Do So Many Intelligent People Have a Hard Time Socializing?Windy Day at the RVFly Tape Is Wrong!How Do People With IQs Over 180 Act and Think?How and Where Can I Take an Accredited IQ Test?Bag O' Marbles
2017
Historic Phill Hartsfield Knife For SaleEvening Visit From a Moose in AnchorageAcknowledgementsFlight from Tangier IslandWilderness is Close to AnchorageNo, You Really Won't See the Whales and Aurora BorealisThe Burden of Having Too Many IdeasProcrastination
2016
Strategies for Managing Procrastination, Part One
2015
Imagination and Filtration (Higher Order Attention, Dark Green Notebook)
2014
Black Notebook Two
2007
Black Notebook One
2005
Olive NotebookBeige Notebook
2004
Sand Notebook
2003
Personal FormRational Times
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Matt Cavanaugh
Christopher Matthew Cavanaugh, aka "Mattanaw"

I am a semi-retired social architect and consultant, with professional/academic experience in the fields of computer science, psychology, philosophy, and more recently, economics.

Articles on this site are eclectic, and draw from content prepared between 1980 and 2022. Topics include ethics, art, fitness, finances, health, psychology, and vegetarianism. The common theme connecting all articles is moral philosophy, even if that is not immediately apparent. Any of my articles that touch on "the good and virtuous life" will be published here. These articles interrelate with my upcoming theory of ethics, two decades in preparation.

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