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Essays, ideas & independent work

Kutty
Stauder.

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Philosophy, markets, and the made world

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A place for close reading and clear thinking.

Ideas worth spending time with

Choose a world
to explore.

Learn a philosophy. Construct a proof.
Follow a company across two centuries.

Historical engraved portrait of Baruch de Spinoza.

01 / Philosophy

Understand Spinoza.

God, freedom, emotion, and the work of living. Start with an illustrated course.

Enter Spinoza 101 ↗

02 / Geometry

Learn to prove it.

From a first construction to a reasoned proof. Think with Euclid’s Elements.

Explore the Euclid course ↗

03 / History

Follow the enterprise.

Capital, commerce, and colonial power. Discover the Dutch East India Company.

Read the illustrated history ↗

Spinoza print: anonymous, 1660–1750, Rijksmuseum. Public domain.

The writing

Essays on what moves
markets and minds.

Begin with the recommended essay, or take one of three paths through the collection.

Begin here

Calm Your Minds, Calm Your Fears

A Spinozan antidote to fear, hype, and manufactured urgency. A sustained argument for clear judgment and effective action.

Three ways in

Understand Spinoza
Master your reactions
Navigate markets and build

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From the author

Ideas for the life
you build.

Philosophy that has to survive contact with markets, machines and other people.

I’m Kutty Stauder. I write about Spinoza, markets, and the causes that shape our lives. I also build games and trading tools. This collection is for readers who want to connect philosophy with the work of living and building.

I was named after the Cutty Sark. Explore the ship, the whisky, and the story behind the name →

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Four ways in

The Concordance, search every essay, discourse, lesson and book. The Ethics, read live, with every citation linked to the proposition beneath it. The geometry of the treatise, drawn as a dependency graph. The Collegium, five guided reading paths.