Adjacent Essays — Research — Thon Ly

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28 papers, newest first. Every paper is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. Machine-readable forms of this same list: Atom feed, llms.txt.

  1. A Vow You Could Have Refused ·
  2. How to Change the World ·
  3. The Letter I Never Sent ·
  4. The Nearest Attractive Neighbor ·
  5. The Name Is the First Gift ·
  6. The Lives That Fed Me ·
  7. The Last Carrier ·
  8. The Borrowed Light: Seven Moons Over HeartBank ·
  9. The Reflection Returned ·
  10. The Pond at Night ·
  11. When the Dharma Is Lost: The Interrupted Song ·
  12. Designing with the Grain: When Institutional Trade-offs Dissolve into Coincidences of Goods ·
  13. The Breadth-Check Turned on the Work ·
  14. The Societal Impact of Anonymous Nearby Thanking — with Time ·
  15. If Everyone Could Give: The World an Economy of Manufactured Giving Would Make ·
  16. The Gift of Gratitude: A Carrot Where Pain Used to Be ·
  17. The Capacity to Give: Why People Come for What They Can Give, Not What They Get ·
  18. A Living Made of Kindness: Right Livelihood for the Age of Automation ·
  19. The Bodhisattva Santa: Why the Greatest Gift Is the Gift of Giving ·
  20. The Two Teslas: Which Inheritance of Nikola Tesla's Legacy Is the Faithful One ·
  21. Love and Freedom Are the Two Faces of Dependent Origination: Why the Non-Attachment That Frees Is the Non-Separateness That Loves, and What That Means for an Aligned Intelligence ·
  22. The Breadth-Check Turned on the Self: Running the Five-Operation Elemental Discipline on a Philosophy of Life — and Why a Worldview Passes the Breath-Check by Self-Regulating, Not by Being Symmetrical ·
  23. The Four Elements as a Breadth-Check Discipline: What Taoist Phases, Greek Substances, Hindu Mahābhūta, Astrological Temperaments, and the Pāli Cattāro Mahābhūtā Are Five Different Things Doing — and the One Discipline They Together Compose ·
  24. Emotional Infrastructure as a Public Good ·
  25. Scarcity Shifts to Authenticity ·
  26. Diaspora-to-Cambodia Gratitude Remittance: An Economic-Anthropological Account of Ritualized Cross-Border Gratitude Flow ·
  27. Father-Son Khmer Tipiṭaka Transcription as Alignment Work: Lineage Transmission as De Facto AI Safety Research ·
  28. The Scientific Case for Gratitude-Based Social Media ·