Chris Kaskie, Varyer
The more grownup I get, the more I wonder about giving advice. I do best when listening to youngsters tell me truths about the world we’ve made for them. It feels sometimes like we all have to talk all the time, in ways at once aphoristic and immediate, so lately I try to be at least as often on receive as on transmit.
Society is relearning how to hold a conversation with itself. After more than 500 years, we are well out of practice. Consensus holds that the public conversation today is in shambles: nasty, brutish, uninformed, overwhelming, and loud—a waste of bits, pixels, and breath. Misinformation, disinformation, harassment, and hate are far too prevalent, t
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There's so much noise out there. It's becoming harder to read anything
human. To feel genuinely inspired. Through it all, the long-form interview
remains a beacon of honesty.
Vulnerability. Inspiration.
human. To feel genuinely inspired. Through it all, the long-form interview
remains a beacon of honesty.
Vulnerability. Inspiration.
on digital vs physical interactions:
Life is a conversation and you need places to have it. The virtual provides us with more spaces for these conversations and these are enriching. But what makes the physical so precious is that it supports continuity in a different way; it doesn’t come and go, and it binds people to it. You can’t just log off or d
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