looking towards 2026

Anderson Cooper asks the most prolific music producer alive what, exactly, he does in the studio. Rubin can’t play an instrument. He has no formal training, doesn’t read music, and never touches the boards.

His answer: I know what I like and what I don’t like, and I’m decisive about what I like and what I don’t like.

That’s it. That’s the whole job... See more

Not by optimizing for optionality—that cult of keeping doors open that has dominated career discourse for far too long—but by doing the opposite. By closing doors. By choosing the one thing that makes you come alive, and going so deep into it that joy and intensity become indistinguishable. Liu won because she stopped optimizing and started wanting... See more

We cannot become more disembodied in an age of technological expansion. In fact, we must become more embodied. Here, we leverage all the modalities of movement that allow us to connect with the core of our being. We also harness our social and emotional wellbeing by becoming more astute at processing how we feel and how others feel.

Clavicular is a performance artist. His body is a canvas and the medley of drugs and mutilations he does are the paint. The picture he’s creating is one of the modern man under algorithmic ideology: a creature surrounded by suffering on all sides, who feels so out of control of his life that he seeks to inflict suffering upon himself as a... See more

luxury is primarily consumed through screens.

I conceive of supraintelligence as a multidimensional form of human intelligence—emergent, embodied, and ethical—that grows in response and in relationship with technological complexity.

It enables us to center and work with the various levels of our being, while navigating the transformations brought on by AI and other exponential technologies.

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Philosopher Martin Buber speaks of two types of relationships with the world around us. There is ‘I and Thou’, where we encounter other beings as connected, interwoven and relational to our own lives. Then there’s ‘I and It’, where beings are othered as objects, detached from ourselves and something to be used for our own ends. The voyeuristic... See more