Things that make you go Hmmmm

We need to restore sanity by awakening the human spirit. We can achieve this only if we undertake the most challenging and meaningful work of our leader lives: Creating Islands of Sanity.

An Island of Sanity is a gift of possibility and refuge created by people’s commitment to form healthy community to do meaningful work. It requires sane leaders... See more

Your anxiety isn't just a personal struggle— it's a revenue stream.

Your depression isn't just brain chemistry— it's a subscription model.

Every choice that we make individually and collectively is a kind of prayer that aligns us with a certain reality and a certain future. It's a declaration of what a human being does in this circumstance. It says, Here is who I want to be. Here is the world I want to live in.

Climate monsters, cultural monsters, political monsters. You can’t fight them by consuming news, or quote-tweet dunking, or sharing a graphic. You can fight them through connection. Social apps might be the “easiest” place for that to happen — and by that, I mean it might the place with the least immediate friction — but that does not make them the... See more

I often think of the Noah Smith quote: “Fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.”