Questioning What's Better

some values and metrics are better than others. Some lead to good problems that are easily and regularly solved. Others lead to bad problems that are not easily and regularly solved.

With the constant change we face today, we may be forced to spend less time on autopilot, more time in questioning mode—attempting to adapt, looking to re-create careers, redefining old ideas about living, working, and retiring, reexamining priorities, seeking new ways to be creative, or to solve various problems in our own lives or the lives of ot

In a post-Enlightenment world we have tasked ourselves to identify what’s meaningful and what’s not, an exercise that can seem arbitrary and induce a creeping nihilism.

First, comparing one’s current situation to some imagined perfect future is a recipe for dissatisfaction and constant striving. Second, it is striking that at precisely the moment when individuals are asked to imagine every possibility for their own individual lives in ever greater detail that one finds no exercises imagining a collective future. I