My Favorite Books of 2025

I’m a sucker for a good dinosaur book, as 2025’s list will show. Ultimately, what stuck with me since January is how well this book does time travel and government influence on it. If you’ve seen Tenet, you’ll know. Where one story starts, another ends (and vice-versa). Don’t look at it as a reskinned Jurassic […]

RC-Philo #3: ‘Think-Threads’ and Braided-Cord structure of thought

A think thread is a way to visualize (or even chart) thought and ideas using an axis of time. I prefer this method of visualization to explain the way I think because I am constantly juggling multiple ideas and frequently finding connections (which creates the braid) in such a way it may appear to others […]

A Political Oath of Sorts

The worlds of philosophy and politics intersect at innumerous junctures in life. There are politics surrounding philosophy just as there is philosophy surrounding politics. One could say that to think about philosophy effectively requires this secondary knowledge, as if each practice was struck upon reverse sides of the same coin— yet, talking about politics, especially […]

RC-Philo #2: The MooT Problem

A Brief Word: My writing is blocky and disheveled. I may, like a small frog, hop from lily pad to lily pad of these vaguely connected thoughts without much flow. I expect this to be the same for some time until I get the hang of publishing my thoughts. No apologies. The Man out of […]

My Favorite Books of 2024

I love Michael Crichton books, stemming from a childhood obsession with Jurassic Park (the movies first, then the books). The atmosphere is always foreboding but rarely ever bleak, which is something I admire. The book wants to give you a message, not punish you for reading it. Comeuppance at the end of the novel is […]

RC-Philo #1: The “Why”

Preamble: There is a great difficulty in deciding where to begin here: As the title of my website should suggest, I am Brandon Keck. This will serve as the inaugural post of my website (and the maiden voyage of my deep philosophical thoughts beyond the walls of a trusted inner circle). The RC-Philo’s […]