Jenna Guarascio

Just as an artist learns to see color relationships or a musician develops an ear for harmony, the scholar-contemplative cultivates modes of attention that bring new dimensions of experience into presence. This isn’t simply about sustained focus—though that’s part of it—but about developing the sensitivity and skill to let phenomena show up in incr... See more

Your decisions about allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life’s strategy.

AI will design products based on real-time trends. Imagine fast fashion, but for every industry, with products created and manufactured in days based on current demand.

Over last ten years, the geometry of the cities did not change much, so it determines our movements as much as it did in the 1960s. But what did change is the presence and role of maps. Digital interactive maps are now built into tens of thousands of apps for mobile devices, and we use them daily. Looking and working with the geometry of the cities... See more

Of course, it was also noted by philosophers Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek that “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” Such a statementdisplays the narrative weight under which our future visions struggle, and why we must cultivate imagination, opportunity, and transformation that transcends our present systems... See more

Research, I realized, is what happens as a byproduct when you try to understand something and hit the bounds of what humanity currently knows