Yes, I'm building my own container. Le Trente is finding its shape. Not by imposing something intellectually rigid (though my mind wants to), but by letting it move with the people who join. The structure needs to be clear enough to signal what we're about: depth, seeking, ideas, exchange. But loose enough to respond to what emerges when curious... See more

These refugees have labored to build an informational and communicative infrastructure that isn’t so overwhelming, one that can be bootstrapped in private or semi-private spaces where a level of trust and good will is taken for granted, and conflict can be productive and encouraging instead of destructive and terrifying. As she puts it, “If the... See more

For our community, the pandemic was an inflection point in the latent sense of disconnection that had been simmering for a generation. We awoke from the fever dream of Covid to find that the city had transformed around us, offering no shortage of trendy spaces to photograph a perfect matcha latte or sip a $25 dirty martini. But amid this abundance... See more