sparks

But here’s what we do know as we age: we come to realise that ‘out there’ is not a place in the world- it is a place in our heads. It’s an emotional state of mind that requires risk, vulnerability and the timid hope that what you dream of doing might just be of value to the world. Those are hard things to reconcile as you get older. Risk can seem... See more

This isn’t really anything novel. But in our hyper-digital age, how information is framed often matters more than the substance of that information itself.

Our appetite for life is so big that living just one life doesn’t always feel like enough. We want to know what other people’s lives are like, and we want other people to live some of our lives, too.

Me-As-A-Service

Do you understand his temperament as an act of denial or an act of acceptance?

What an interesting question. I’ve never been asked that before. I suppose I understand his temperament mostly as a great gift.

I’m not trying to deny my father the credit he deserves. I know my father made a great many decisions about the kind of life he wanted to live... See more

What’s Missing Says More: The Semiotics of Omission

We spend our lives surrounded by signals. Most of them are obvious—what someone says, what they wear, the metrics a company puts in a slide deck. But some of the most telling information comes not from what’s there, but from what’s missing.

A woman on a dating app with only headshots is probably... See more