Andrew McCluskey

Leisure's opportunity cost skyrockets. When an hour of work generates what once took days, rest becomes luxury taxed by your own conscience. Every pause carries an invisible price tag that flickers in your peripheral vision.

The function of art is also clear: Artists propose new ways of doing things and perceiving the world, which if successful, become conventional.

Michael Tomasello's book "The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition" argues that humans' unique cognitive abilities stem from our capacity for shared intentionality - the ability to participate in collaborative activities with shared goals and intentions. This enables cultural learning and the creation of artifacts, practices, and institutions that... See more

Take decentralized networks, which promised to shift power from tech giants back to users. The vision was beautiful: creators and contributors would finally capture the value they generate. But many crypto networks revealed how quickly noble intentions can unravel. What started as a grassroots movement to build community-owned wireless networks... See more

Something fundamental in our culture has ended. What exactly, I can’t quite put my finger on. As many things in the liminal, it’s hard to grasp. But if we want to birth something new out of it, we have to come to terms with endings. We have to come to terms with the ultimate ending, the very thing Covid-19 forces us to look at: our inevitable... See more