Myles
Public work from private formation.
I write essays, threads, and carousels from a personal long-horizon project called Axios - from the Greek ἄξιος, worthy. The project asks what makes a person, and the work they put out, worthy of standing behind.
Most of the work happens in private - formation reading, journaling, the integration that doesn't need an audience. The work that earns the move from interior to public lives at Truth over Time; this site sits alongside it as the personal layer.
The work
My longer, more serious writing lives at Truth over Time.
The whole project is built around one simple rule: only publish ideas that have aged well. Not the hot new takes - the ones that have survived.
Before publishing anything there, I run this test: Would a thoughtful person from a completely different civilization, with no knowledge of our culture, come to roughly the same conclusion if they thought through the same realities?
If the answer is yes - if smart people across centuries, from totally separate cultures who couldn't have copied each other, keep arriving at the same core insight - then it belongs at Truth over Time. That's the kind of durable, battle-tested knowledge I'm after.
C.S. Lewis did exactly this in the appendix of The Abolition of Man, lining up similar moral principles from ancient Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Norse, and Hebrew sources. They all pointed in the same direction. Truth over Time just follows that same spirit.
Most of what I write doesn't clear that high bar - and that's fine. Those pieces stay in the workshop or get published here under my name as personal thoughts and work-in-progress. Truth over Time is saved for the ideas that pass the cross-civilisational test, refreshed and written for today.
The name itself is the standard.
Where to follow
- Truth over Time · @truthovertime - the work
- X · @mylesdotuk - short essays, behind the work
- Instagram · @myles.uk - carousels, aesthetic
Now
Shaping the first piece for Truth over Time - a reading of an unusually-magnetic contemporary figure through his classical analogue, with the trajectory predicted from the classical figure's completed arc. Re-reading Lewis (Abolition of Man, the cross-civilisational appendix) and Dostoevsky alongside.