Archive - Guildrim

Madame Bovary and Lifestyle-Curation Debt

How the desire to make an ordinary life look beautiful turns taste into insolvency

Sep 22 • The Wizard

27:31

The Great Gatsby and Personal-Branding Exhaustion

What Jay Gatsby understood about turning yourself into an advertisement

Sep 15 • The Wizard

32:33

Machiavelli Goes to the Office Potluck

Affection creates a request. Authority creates an assignment.

Sep 8 • The Wizard

29:20

Don Quixote and the LinkedIn Thought Leader

How Cervantes Diagnosed the Professional Urge to Turn Every Meeting, Setback, and Delayed Flight into a Heroic Quest

Sep 1 • The Wizard

28:19

August 2026

Montaigne and the Anxiety of Seeing “Typing…”

When Three Dots Become an Oracle

Aug 25 • The Wizard

29:54

Les Misérables and the Internet’s Yellow Passport

From Jean Valjean’s Yellow Passport to the Search Engine That Never Forgives

Aug 18 • Lohengrin

32:47

Dostoevsky's Underground Man and Reply Guy Resentment

The Underground Man in the Replies

Aug 11 • The Wizard

28:39

King Lear and the Executive Who Believes His Own Praise

The Conference Room Love Test

Aug 4 • The Wizard

34:48

July 2026

Augustine Against the Narcissist Who Calls Possession Love

The soul can call many things love after it has forgotten how to love rightly.

Jul 30 • The Wizard

Plato’s Cave and Short-Form Video

The Wall That Never Sleeps

Jul 28 • The Wizard

28:17

Aquinas and the Machine That Answers Everything

The machine can supply an answer in seconds. It cannot tell you what deserves to be asked.

Jul 23 • The Wizard

What Rapunzel Teaches Us About Remote Life

How comfort, safety, and digital connection can quietly turn the home into a tower.

Jul 21 • The Wizard

28:30

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