Brian Thomas Clark

So, before you quickly fill that seat, ask: what got us here? Is the role itself still designed correctly, or has the institution changed around it?

By spending time on Facebook, though, we surrender our cognitive processes to Facebook’s sci-ops engineers. We don’t become more empathetic to the con

There is such a thing as enlightened indifference, and the social peace that we lost a decade ago rested on it.

My teacher left a dentation, a metaphor I’ve lifted from Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince. Dentations meaning things that leave a foundation for what

All this should seem obvious, which is most troubling: the lack of communal love — the indifference we have towards neighbors, strangers — is not only

In the end, shame has its purpose, of course. It acts as the great course-corrector, with a kind of redemptive electricity that forever nudges us towa

It doesn’t mean websites and apps are dead, far from it. They will have a role to play, but an organization must be prepared to experiment across a la

My teacher left a dentation, a metaphor I’ve lifted from Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince. Dentations meaning things that leave a foundation for what