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.

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.

If our kids films are teaching our youngest generations to be suspect of technology and its leaders, that’s going to shape how they allow it to be in the world.

Intelligence sits somewhere between channeling the future and creating it.

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

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.”

As Mark Miller put it to us, the brain is not a passive receiver of sensory information. It’s constantly generating predictions about what the world should be, and using sensory input only to correct the errors in those predictions. You are not perceiving the world, you are perceiving your brain’s best guess.