Alex Dobrenko

Normally, when we pay attention to someone or something, we undertake what Weil calls a “muscular effort”: our eyes lock on another’s eyes, our expressions reflect the proper response, and our bodies shift in relation to the object to which we are paying attention. This kind of attention flourishes in therapists’ offices, business schools, and... See more

We believe that the best recommendations come not from cold algorithms, but warm hearts.

We, as humans, sometimes receive streams of tokens and produce tokens in response, forming words, sentences, lines of code ... but always with the ability to peek outside the stream and check in with ground-floor reality. We pause and consider: does this word really stand for the thing I intend it to stand for? Does this sentence capture the real... See more

New humanism is the philosophy of creative writing. It is a philosophy of disciplined individualism, of crafted authenticity.

WeChat limits ads in its social feed to just 2 per day. In contrast, westerners tend to see 10,000 ads/day.

I did not used to be a person who asked the universe questions. I used to be a person who lived in a large and light-filled apartment. That person was very certain that what she saw was, for the most part, what she got. Back then, I didn’t believe in mystical design or preordained plans from the cosmos. I didn’t even know what time I was born, nor... See more