Because the telling is alive, shaped by whatever grief or joy we've carried into that particular afternoon.

Summarization technology is the ultimate device: it promises to deliver the benefits of complex thought without requiring us to do the thinking. But thinking, like fitness, is a practice that can only be developed through regular engagement with resistance. Outsource the resistance, and you lose the capacity. Let machines do your intellectual heavy... See more

We're approaching a moment where the ability to be confused, to be uncertain, to be changed by encounters with complexity will become a form of resistance — resistance to the flattening of human experience, resistance to the compression of meaning, resistance to the optimization of mystery. In a world of instant answers, sustained questioning... See more

Knowledge wasn't something you collected but something that collected you; reshaping your thoughts, your questions, your very way of being in the world.

the future belongs not to those who can consume information most efficiently, but to those who can engage with complexity most deeply. Not to those who can extract the most key points, but to those who can dwell most fully with irreducible experiences. Not to those who process the most data, but to those who allow themselves to be processed by what... See more

We've built temples to the lie that you can skip the line on your own life, that growth is just another thing you can Amazon Prime to your doorstep.

Indigenous storytelling traditions know that the power of a story isn't in its moral or message but in the way it creates a space where meaning can emerge.

This compression culture doesn't just change how we think, but I argue it changes what we expect from every aspect of human experience! We've trained ourselves to believe that complexity can always be whittled down, that difficulty can always be optimized away, that transformation should be instant and effortless.

We want the wisdom without the patient work of becoming wise.