those who obsessively travel will tell you people are overwhelmingly good, while those who obsessively scroll will tell you people are overwhelmingly bad.

One of the keynote speakers on stage said that of all people who go on bereavement leave after a loved one dies, half of them will quit their jobs within one year .

“The evil scientists from my childhood have become big tech bros.”

We are effectively closing our eyes to the body, but opening up all of our other senses to it. We refuse to see it, but we demand to feel it.

To me, that looks like a naive culture that thinks it can worship the body without accepting its humanity.

Woo-curious might be the best term for me. But I can stretch my mind to the idea of some sort of collective or universal intelligence. If there is a greater collective “brain”, I think it would have to be predictive, too.

Intelligence sits somewhere between channeling the future and creating it.

Grief is so metabolizing, but we shouldn’t wait for death to access it. We should actively build grief rituals for ourselves like we would any other mental health practice.

as someone who studies culture for a living, I can feel the violence of so easily dismissing people and places. The way it denies their humanity and creates false binaries. I know there is a lot of really important stuff to be vigilant against right now, but the best activists and leaders and researchers I know see issues as good and bad, but

Death and grief are great forcing functions that collapse all of your false narratives. It’s a vacuum cleaner for a messy mind, especially in a culture where we let nothing die, which means nothing can be reborn. It is a gift for the living in that way.