Cultural Observations

Fifty-four percent of American adults say they or a family member have experienced a gun incident.

Silicon Valley is massively limited in its imagination because many of the people there have chosen, as a starting assumption, to build things for a Yuval Hararian Man, for men without chests, for siloed souls like themselves.

if you don’t have a Black woman on your board, I better not see a Black woman on your billboard.” –Aurora James,

Dismantling current gen ed requirement to align with a new upstream mission will be hard. First, state boards must put a sunset date on all gen ed credit requirements that measure AI-replicable outcomes, replacing them with requirements focused on knowledge production and validation. Second, accrediting bodies must revise their standards to... See more

the current epidemic of attention disorders is being exacerbated by each of us being expected to do the work of an entire community.

We will not think or argue our way out of modern culture’s pessimism. We will have to imagine our way out. We live, as Robert Graves said, in a web of language. The bigger our web, the bigger our world. In the philosopher Richard Rorty’s words (paraphrasing Percy Shelley), imagination sets the bounds of thought: imagination breaks the path that... See more