Ideas from a book in progress
One question, approached from several directions
What is a human life worth when the measures around us can describe so much—and still leave out something essential? These essays develop the book’s central argument one idea at a time.
Essays
The measure is incomplete
A number can be true within its purpose and still be the wrong unit for understanding a person.
Read the essay MetaphorThe infinite account
An image for value that cannot be earned, compared, or exhausted—and for what happens when we live from it.
Read the essay Author’s noteFrom computers to human complexity
Why years spent around precise systems made the irreducible complexity of people more compelling.
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