Andrew McCluskey

I don’t know why we talk about walled gardens.

That seems to imply something beautiful, something worth defending.

It conjures images of beautifully maintained flowerbeds protected from the outside world. But that’s not what Facebook built, what Instagram built, what Twitter built.

They built paved, unshaded, barren hellscapes, trapped us in them,... See more

The longstanding blending of diverse cultures in music epitomizes the understanding that collaboration across differences can lead to extraordinary results.

When we are in fear mode, our capacity to understand the perspectives of those different from us shuts down. Fear primes us for self-interest.