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What we have is a compounded problem, in which people with generational wealth pull the levers on a society that they don’t understand. Whether corpor

“All those things that I've always tried to push away — having a vivid imagination or asking weird questions or whatever, I gave them a voice by writi

Chia Amisola—naive-yearly.are.na

what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar a

“Books are for reading. As straightforward as that may sound, books are still usually promoted with images of pristine books waiting to be read. Being

he can write about anything he wants, but this freedom feels like a prison. “The less free I am, the freer I appear to be,” he tells the reader, in on

Meanwhile, given that everything we write comes to us via the many lenses of the experiences we’ve accumulated across a life—we speak of trees, for ex

All of this can be described in one word--'Aiglatson'--which is 'Nostalgia' spelled backwards and is a word told to me by Gabriel Fackre to symbolize

In social science, hope is not simply the belief that one’s circumstances will get better; for that, we use the term optimism. Hope is the belief that

The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic

Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen (2016) put it even more concisely:“A theory is a statement of causality. It’s a statement of wha

“The chief utility of a general theory... of strategy lies in its ability not to point out lessons, but to isolate things that need thinking about. Th

“Strategy can be considered a simple machine that consists of just four working parts: Ends, Ways, Means, and Assumptions”For Gray, Ends were the goal

From the broad temporalitythat this era forces us to make sense of, our existence is surely dependentonly on what it leaves behind. That is, it forces

“Fiction is just gossip about people who happened to be make-believe.” — Lynn Barnes

"The stronger [the] identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction."

“Late style arrives when you realise that you are: competent enough to write those things you wanted to write when you were twenty-five; impatient eno

was better to hear the unhappy details of such a life from the lips of the man who had led it rather than from someone else. Mothers often portrayed f

An implicit ending makes it difficult to fully give one’s heart to another, and yet, even in its finiteness, time cannot limit or end love.

Poem About Time and Love

“Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middleclass men and women who are stuck in their comfortable grooves

A textile (even one as dense as felt) invites the eye to see its strands and, at the same time, see it as a field. This dynamic becomes further compli

We then used these objects to prompt discussions through questions of making – specifically asking participants ‘why do you think this was made?’ Maki