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⁠I’ve argued before that culture isn’t stagnating so much as migrating into forms we don’t have the language to recognize yet — internet personalities

here in the contemporary West, we don’t really do elders: instead, we have “the elderly.” The connotations are quite different.

What would it mean, instead of being an elderly woman, to be an elder woman? Because to be an elder implies something rather different — it implies au

As Magic Makers, we have the ability to not only communicate with the dead but to prolong their lives through holy acts of memory-keeping. When I cook

It’s not always easy to wade into wonder, to merge with mystery. It is tempting to overthink, overcomplicate, to distance, to hedge, to hesitate. But

I’ve learned to resist the illusion of stuckness and to follow my own fascinations. The word fascinate comes from the Latin fascinus, which means “spe

“Rituals are the doorways of the psyche, between the sacred and the profane, between purity and dirt, beauty and ugliness, and an opening out of the o

Success in New Games looks nothing like success in Old Games. You won't have a prestigious job at a famous company. You'll have equity in something yo

The infrastructure won't be rebuilt by institutions or apps or government programs. It will be rebuilt by small groups playing New Games until Old Gam

These aren't revolutionary ideas. They're ancient patterns: small groups of humans doing hard things together repeatedly. We just forgot they were nec

Alvin Toffler is credited with saying: “The illiterate of the 21****st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn

Adaptive literacy means you can recognise when your expertise has become a liability. When the thing that made you successful is now preventing you fr

Often, our first tactic for making change is information. To improve diets, we tell kids about the links between donuts, soda, obesity, and diabetes.

Any lesson, even a necessary one, can be learned too well. There is a comfort in being disabused, a pride in turning up the lights and puncturing illu

transitioning to a creativity-first mindset requires much more than just designing better tools. It requires us to shift to a new paradigm that celebr

Wabi-sabi is the antidote to all things symmetrical, mass-produced, or generated by AI. It has been crafted by humans and oxygen and seasons and the c

Ideas are expansive, elastic things, and many are big enough that they’ll seek multiple outlets.

Wabi-sabi is the antidote to all things symmetrical, mass-produced, or generated by AI. It has been crafted by humans and oxygen and seasons and the c

Suffering reduces. Negativity is the enemy of creativity. It’s common sense. If someone is depressed, they say they don’t even feel like getting out o

Ideas are expansive, elastic things, and many are big enough that they’ll seek multiple outlets.

You’ve never fully seen yourself in “proper” references. So you’re good at making things for people who live between categories too. • Work that fee

Sometimes when my Demon of Perfectionism is making me fret about how woolly my words are or how far away my “perfect” final product seems to be, I utt

Gen Z doesn’t experience cultural time this way. They’re reacting to everything that has ever happened

Since every era is equally available, and all events are potentially happening at the same time, the chain of causality and influence breaks down comp

Zoomers, you see, live inside the Archive. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that they are imprisoned inside the Archive—a Borgesian labyrinth.

Sam Buntz makes the opposite case: his claim is that streaming platforms and TikTok have flattened cultural time so completely that Gen Z can’t form t

To sense is to participate, to live inside the world rather than above it or outside of it. To feel—to experience—is to be real.

UNLIKE THE STORY TOLD by science fiction, the machine probably won't win by conquest. Instead, like the cuckoo, it'll dominate us via parasitism—by hi

People say “touch grass” to mean getting away from a screen, and it’s kind of a joke, but literally, it’s true: touching grass is the capacity to dwel

To treat the body as something we “own” rather than something we inhabit is to exile ourselves from the place where meaning takes root.

‘As we work to reverse these long-term socio-economic and socio-political trends to foster more connections to others, stronger communities, more pro-

Maybe what we need is not an object to be known but a cause of wonder.

If you insist that anything too common, anything come by too cheaply, must be boring, then all the wonders of the Singularity cannot save you. You wil

Dreaming is about expanding our minds beyond the culture of white supremacy, and the perfectionism, hyper-individuality, rushedness, and passiveness i

this is the power in not only individually dreaming, but in collectively dreaming. There is power in communing in ideas of freedom that whiteness coul

Why is it in so many circles, dreaming is thought of as frivolous, individualistic, escapist? As something that is running from reality? I think that’

Woolf responded that if she were to spend three guineas (the equivalent of roughly three dollars in today’s money) to prevent war, she wouldn’t give t

You can't practice 21st-century strategy inside 20 th -century structures. Everything we've outlined requires one core shift: from extraction to stewa

One thing I am starting to get the hang of is igniting suspicion toward those impulsive solutions which appear at first to make the most logical and r

“It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those others identified as outside the structur

Woolf says you cannot simply oppose war while leaving intact the structures that produce war.

“You have not yet touched the hearts of the women. You have not yet spoken to their power.” - Leymah Gbowee

The underlying problem is not men as a sex. The root of the problem lies in a social system in which the power of the Blade is idealized--in which bot

Most of her treatise on how to prevent war centers on dismantling this patriarchal hierarchy. She says patriarchy and militarism are one in the same-

Woolf then speaks of the patriotism that has long inspired men to fight wars. But she says, “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no countr

The most important part of postwar help is missing: providing basic social services to people. Not having those resources might have been a reason men

it doesn’t actually work on an entire society, not forever, because even thought we are an imperfect species, and even though we can and are accultura

What you are feeling right now, be it volcanic anger or exhaustion or guilt or confusion or incapacitation isn’t just real, it is sacred. It is your h

“The challenge to all of us is to live a revolution, not to die for one. There has been too much killing, and the weapons are now far too terrible. Th

This is pretty good, and strangely consistent with my own idea of good taste Tasteful people pursue stuff with purpose, have an appreciation and curi

On paper, taste = discernment. In practice, taste = your sense of self, made visible.

For Kant, judgment is the mental faculty that connects particulars to universals—the capacity to say “this thing is an instance of that category.” But

A system optimized for noise elimination is hostile to the genuinely new. It converges on what works, on what has worked. That convergence might produ

Imagining and articulating possibilities is how all flourishing futures begin. Stories are the origination point of world-building.

Astronaut Scott Kelly on intelligence: “The smartest person in the room, I’ve learned, is usually the person who knows how to tap into the intelligenc

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

The parts of you that don’t make sense to an algorithm are often the most alive.

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Every system young men touch today extracts value while promising creation. College extracts tuition while promising knowledge. Jobs extract time whil

Someone said “it’s a privilege to be exhausted doing something you love” and I told them “go to hell.” Our bodies are not built to be exhausted. We

In this exploration, we’ll examine why rest can feel like structural collapse rather than restoration, particularly for women whose psychological foun

When Stillness Feels Like Falling: The Neurobiology of Rest Resistance

Someone said “it’s a privilege to be exhausted doing something you love” and I told them “go to hell.” Our bodies are not built to be exhausted. We

at speed. at scale. the distance covered reveals foolishness. just come closer, slowly, unevenly. Nora Bateson, Combining

Thick desires are inconvenient. They take years to cultivate and can't be satisfied on demand. The desire to master a craft, to read slowly, to be emb

Someone said “it’s a privilege to be exhausted doing something you love” and I told them “go to hell.” Our bodies are not built to be exhausted. We

well-arranged words rearrange reality.

Articulation is a creative act. You think up new thoughts through speaking, through making them real and concrete. Giving them shape and form and feel

It takes a deeply personal, in the bone, in the blood, in the spine recognition of the variables in motion. An abstracted version, an impersonal versi

The real world is all edge cases, all the time.

“To fit in with the change of events, words, too, had to change their usual meanings. What used to be described as a thoughtless act of aggression was

When you say that the status quo draws people toward more individuated, personality-driven work, what do you think is causing that, both culturally an

to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

iUnlock doors with it.iMeet lovers through it.iOrder food with it.iSummon cars with it.iEven meditate with it.Apple designed the iPhone too well.So we

Bringing about the world we want to live in, the world we want to leave to our children is, substantially, the work of the imagination, or what educat

we should all feel an obligation to tell stories about a human future that we actually want to be a part of.

claiming it's over is just an excuse to avoid building what's next.

By better understanding these imaginaries, we empower ourselves to shape them according to our personal and collective preferences. Instead of letting

behind every algorithm, every interface, every design decision lie imaginaries—those collective representations that shape our visions of what is poss

A common criticism of hope is that it’s passive; that people just wait around for things to magically change. It’s a valid critique. And it’s exactly

What a Rage-Filled Heart, an Exhausted Heart, a Terrified Heart, and a Grieving Heart Have in Common

There’s a phrase making the rounds online: “The more I heal, the less ambitious I become.” I’ve been wondering if its resonance reveals a quiet fatigu

I am not less capable because I refuse to live in constant activation. I’m just less exploitable.

My body was not an obstacle to ambition, but the barometer for what sustainable ambition could look like now.

When people can feel something but cannot yet name it, it means the market is about to change. That’s what latent demand looks like, in both markets a

Power may really live in the hands of just 50 people, but the way it is experienced in our day-to-day lives is far more diffuse. It’s the constant fee

The narrative out there right now is revolution - taking back power, reclaiming control and forcing accountability. And maybe that happens. But I also

A regulated woman pauses and gets curious. She stops absorbing what does not belong to her. That pivot is often misread as disengagement, even though

Big ideas need framework, real action, and depth to move beyond surface-level daydreams. And if those building blocks are missing, there’s no requirem

The small stuff is the magic. It’s infinitely harder to stay consistent in a quiet life than to be the loudest voice in the room with nothing to say.

we need permission to unsubscribe from a life where every thought is for sale, every opinion a performance, and every move an attempt to keep up.

Somewhere along the way, we decided that the only acceptable form of communication is a main-stage monologue. Virtual validation has become currency,

A meaningful idea might be building a community because you genuinely can’t imagine doing anything else, or telling a story because it’s all you can t

TONE — When culture is disassembling, it is also reassembling. The tone, the aesthetic, the language, and mutual care is what will FORM and inform the

It is just that easy to open—or to limit—possibility. The approach, the tone, the details matter.  The approach is seeking—not to lock down a particul

Possibility is precious. It is also alive. How might it be to hold possibility as something that visits unexpectedly, something that whispers in forei

the front porches gave way to backyard decks and studio apartments and the coveted Micro Homes where you could be alone with your devices.

As Anaïs Nin wrote, “When we go deeply into the personal, we go beyond the personal. We achieve something that is collective.”

I’m excited to announce the My Sweet Dumb Brain Hope-Mail Exchange: a sweet, simple experiment in connection and kindness. If you sign up, my editor B

Third spaces — the hug spaces — need to be physically designed for conversational distance (a literal rubbing of elbows) and they need to incorporate

Crossroads was what is known as a “hug space.” Community spaces tend to form around three H’s, Marquis says: havens, hangouts and hugs. Havens are pro

Physically bringing people together, however, is not enough. The places where socioeconomic classes mix the most, according to new research, are casua

People often think the work of strengthening democracy means thrusting people in a room together to have meaty, critical conversations. But according

My job is helping people who are building the future understand the cultural and emotional systems shaping it and right now, the problem is we are sti

Minimize your surface area. Don’t click, don’t share data and don’t feed the algorithm. Find safer, under the radar places for genuine exchange.

When extraction becomes this pervasive, people opt out. They go dark and build walls around what matters to them. And this is already happening. You c

Ambient extraction is different. It’s a level of vulnerability and theft that registers more emotionally and psychically than it does economically, an

My job is helping people who are building the future understand the cultural and emotional systems shaping it and right now, the problem is we are sti

Our elders say that ceremonies are the way we “remember to remember

Death and grief are great forcing functions that collapse all of your false narratives. It’s a vacuum cleaner for a messy mind, especially in a cultur

You need to find community right now because "grief demands a witness", and whether you realize it or not, we are all grieving. We're grieving many th

Grief is so metabolizing, but we shouldn’t wait for death to access it. We should actively build grief rituals for ourselves like we would any other m

Death and grief are great forcing functions that collapse all of your false narratives. It’s a vacuum cleaner for a messy mind, especially in a cultur

One of the keynote speakers on stage said that of all people who go on bereavement leave after a loved one dies, half of them will quit their jobs wit

You need to find community right now because "grief demands a witness", and whether you realize it or not, we are all grieving. We're grieving many th

the liminal space between no longer and not yet.

And they lived stretched taught in desperate yearning ever after

Longing is lost in having. It is an art to ache. It requires stoic strength and unshakeable trust matched by equivalent portions of impatience and nak

I realized I never wanted to hear the terms ‘resources,’ ‘stewardship,’ or ‘sustainable’ ever again. For all the good intentions those endeavors have

So much value and love for the process of writing and what it does for the coherence between heart, brain, imagination, lived reality, unseen, and see

You can’t write a viral essay that says “it’s complicated and I’m not sure.” But this is the only path to truly novel insight.

Writing is a task that takes both objective and subjective intelligence. LLMs ace the objective parts the same way they ace every test; you can’t faul

eflecting on these points, you might say the process feels messy and unpredictable. Indeed, it should. The birth of something great is never serene. I

A cardiologist, endocrinologist, obesity specialist, health economist and social epidemiologists all said versions of the same thing: Striving to get

Stress Is Weathering Our Bodies From the Inside Out

Our suffering, our diagnosis and our treatment are far from objective or apolitical. If you are a marginalised person, your experience of all three of

You could call all of these events surprising, but I’m not sure any of them could be convincingly labeled unexpected. Such is the paradox of our times

awe is more than an individual experience. As Keltner suggests, awe can mobilize us toward social progress. It can help us address the systemic shocks

Where do the power structures and agency of learning reside? Who has power: the learner, or the educator and the institutions that deliver education s

Understanding technologies requires also understanding power; it needs media literacy as well as technical literacy; incisive questioning as well as s

Over the past decade, tech has slowly been innovating human connection into obsolescence

When people say “love is not enough” they mean “the emotion of love is not enough to sustain a relationship”, and of course it isn’t. The emotion cann

labour of love

If you listened to a piece of music and assessed that piece of music by how many A notes or B notes were played, you would miss the music if you piled

To address a food crisis is to address the relational, recursive density the food is contingent upon. It is to nourish the coming together of intergen

The menu is an abstraction of the food. It is about the food—but it is not the food. Eating the menu makes for a flat and papery meal. The meal, by co

Context accumulates rather than depletes. "As time passes, insight expands, and even more context comes into view." Understanding that deepens rather

Possibility is nourishing nectar. Every drop is needed to meet the multisystemic stuckness. Yet that possibility is caged in plans. Paying attention i

“I shall act always to increase possibility.” — Heinz von Foerster

The tone of action in context, alters possibility. The possibility pesticide of rationality within the existing system will likely monocrop the awaiti

It takes a deeply personal, in the bone, in the blood, in the spine recognition of the variables in motion. An abstracted version, an impersonal versi

in that silence - where the words remain but contact is gone - something essential fades.

We are effectively closing our eyes to the body, but opening up all of our other senses to it. We refuse to see it, but we demand to feel it. To me, t

We can’t decide whether to worship the body or control it, and that’s probably because we are just starting to ask ourselves what it means to live in

Given the large degree to which metaphors from digital technologies shape our understanding of memory, it’s surprising that our images of memory are s

Sontag offered a more apt metaphor than journey, though she ultimately preferred straight, unadorned talk: illness as a place, and often a dark and lo

The makeover of disease with metaphoric cosmetics is not new. In her book “Illness as Metaphor,” writer and critic Susan Sontag criticized “sentimenta

Cancer with its “redemptive power” can be a “growth opportunity” allowing “creative self-transformation,” “spiritual upward mobility,” or otherwise ma

Sugarcoating my bitter pill, a chronic disease, by calling it a “journey” might sweeten it for you, but not for me.

Sometimes, earning less and bringing back time is just as precious as making more money.

Art critic Jonathan Crary’s book 24/7 explores how we entered a culture that battles against rest and time itself. A nonstop 24/7 culture that never t

So, if cooperation and collaboration has been key to our survival and some of our most impactful innovation, why is it so hard? One of the biggest cul

From indigenous cultures — who’ve tended to operate on a paradigm of cooperative collectivism that’s deeply entwined with their relationship to nature

The Old Game is zero-sum by design. Your gain requires someone else's loss. The ladder has limited rungs. The positions are scarce. The rewards dimini

Create ownership in everything. Revenue shares in projects. Equity in micro-companies. Stakes in outcomes. The Old Game keeps you permanently renting

When individual entry is impossible, collective entry becomes optimal. When traditional financing fails, alternative structures win. The groups doing

“A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with 2 watches is never sure.”Ancient societies followed a single narrative. Modern societies are cac

I do not want more doors—I want to walk through one without looking back

I am a thousand almosts, held together by hesitation

no one warned us of the disease it carries. Of how too much possibility can fray the edges of a person

in times of intense stress or adversity, future-oriented thinking such as hope may be more effective than mindfulness in sustaining positive mindsets

doom won't save us: we can't build a better world on nihilism. spite alone can get you far, but it will never make you happy.

Trust, the willingness to be vulnerable to others, is an expression of faith that they will do the right thing. It is how hope lives between people. B

globalization and the internet may be flattening the world’s once spiky terrain of mental disorders

after several conversations with happiness experts and psychologists, I’ve cobbled together a tentative theory. We’re seeing the international transmi

“Song of the summer” is a much-contested term, more of a cultural myth or a shared hallucination than a hard-and-fast label.

I like jokes because they are an unserious way of saying serious things

Christmas and New Year’s are two of the only holidays still widely observed in the United States. Meaning: the vast majority of non-emergency services

It's essentially like potentially being allergic to anything in the world. And it can look like a lot of different things

although I guess society and the medical practitioners often look really negatively upon social media and, you know, Instagram diagnoses and TikTok di

And when you become identifed in your neurodivergence or your chronic illness that disappears and you realize that, fuck, I'm actually not just going

Almost anything that we are able to direct sustained attention at will begin to loop on itself and bloom.Upgrade to paidTo take a dark example, if you

this is the power in not only individually dreaming, but in collectively dreaming. There is power in communing in ideas of freedom that whiteness coul

Communal dreaming is not about escapism, nor is it avoidance of the collapsing crises of our lived realities. Dreaming can be found in radical imagina

Why is it in so many circles, dreaming is thought of as frivolous, individualistic, escapist? As something that is running from reality? I think that’

“When we gear our society around efficiency, we produce more and more of the measurable, while the immeasurable, the qualitative, and the things we do

“Data only tells you what was. It doesn’t account for what could be.”

These thresholds are initiatory. They are transformative. Full of bendings, turnings and reversals; where inner-meets-outer like a Möbius strip, an in

The space between stories calls on us to reclaim our freedom. To let go of the need for a coherent story and prefabricated structures in favor of crea

Americans have tripled the time spent in meetings since 2020, data from Microsoft’s suite of business software show—leaving less time for the casual i

Resenteeism: staying in a job you’re fundamentally unhappy in due to concerns of job security or a lack of better options, and starting to actively re

“We used to think that our jobs were these things that should give us fulfillment professionally and completely,” Chapman says. “That’s very much the

In a model, agents are interchangeable. Consumer A and Consumer B have different preference curves, yes, but they respond to the same incentive struct

The Seattle-area resource Big Door Brigade defines mutual aid as “when people get together to meet each other’s basic survival needs with a shared und

Mutual aid, of which defense committees are good examples, has the power to change our social relationships, to galvanize us into groups and communiti

What would happen if we stopped acting as if the primordial form of work is laboring at a production line, or wheat field, or iron foundry, or even in

The role of a successful place is to provide a catalytic context for missions.

when we find the convergence of where we belong and where we are encouraged or at least allowed to make a contribution, the magic happens.

I am very affected by place. Actually I think everyone is. Probably more than they realize. Our surroundings act on us. Some foster chaos, others enco

Drawing Wisdom From the ‘Weird’

Any time you marginalize a belief, you’re going to get marginalized people who are the ones who are speaking up on that belief. And you, often in life

In an overly digitized world, people embrace with intensity the few remaining ritualistic activities available to them. Halloween gets turned into som

‘only the new of which one tires. One never tires of the old.’

To me, the ideal hangout has a few components: spontaneity, purposelessness, and a willingness among all parties involved to go wherever the conversat

serendipitous connections can't occur if you're not creating the right environment for them obvi don't be annoying people if they don't wanna talk

We enjoy something more when we experience it as unnecessary, unexpected and wonderful.

Many social goals are best accomplished indirectly; singles parties are never the best singles parties, dinners devoted to a discussion topic rarely p

ideas that spread in part because of their fuzziness and simplicity.

In other words, ideas work best when they echo parts of this social or political unconscious—shared but hidden views of hope and fear.

The ideas that travel furthest are the ones that find companions, partner ideas with which they resonate.

Most of us find it easier to digest ideas in the form of narratives,

Books you read are sending you input. Your friends modeling behaviors for you. Newspapers. Tools. People you follow on Twitter. The architecture of a

There’s something deeply compelling to me about the idea that research—in some form—can be done by anyone with a serious commitment to intellectual in

Contribute your skills to an existing effort – make it possible. Build the website, raise the funds, recruit the talent, plan the events. As Bill McKi

They're blind to a simple truth: complex minds can't develop on their own. If they could, feral children would be like any other. And minds don't grow

Our society’s individualism, largely driven by technological advances and the illusion of endless progress, will no longer be sustainable – will not b

No one talks about the way in which the world, in all of its bewildering capability, is, at every second, offering some detail that might lead to a ne

“to hone sensory receptivity to the marvelous specificity of things.” I would argue that this is another way of talking about learning to pay a certai

hello, i'm v good at asking questions. it's one of the things i get most complimented on i think what i do is simple & easy for anyone to do: 1.

Intelligence is a form of friendship with the world. It can’t be cultivated out of fear of it.

when we tap into the diverse spectrum of human emotion, we have an opportunity to inspire people to view themselves as part of a larger story—and to m

especially after the advent of electronic media, knowledge, place, and the public sphere begin to diverge. While local realities still loomed large ep

The aim of all of these was to shift the culture so that citizens felt a shared responsibility for their city, while expanding their sense of what mig

“That feeling of helplessness comes out of the fact that all our agency is being channeled through these media,” he said. “We have these events that a

The ideas as expressed seem urgent. We weigh in, hearts pounding. And then nothing really happens beyond the superficial or representative. We move on

Our around-the-clock overexposure to global human suffering, our daily feed of what we once considered catastrophic events — political, ecological, cu

It seems to me that it perpetuates itself, this exchange of nothing. Behind it is an existential exhaustion, the sickness, the fear, the lockdowns, th

Emergence is beyond what the sum of its parts could even imagine.

Dreaming is about expanding our minds beyond the culture of white supremacy, and the perfectionism, hyper-individuality, rushedness, and passiveness i

Her imagination, she knew, was a means to escape this cul-de-sac of despair.

One thing I’ve also noticed is the gradual loss of the understanding of “imagination” as a category; it can sound a little Reading Rainbow to talk abo

Imagination, in other words, is the ground on which we fight against determinism, fatalism, the dead hand of hindsight and the unavoidable tendency of

We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the world easier to envision tha

🧱Alternative funding model (inspired by cooperative breweries) Get 1,000 people to chip in $1,000. Make them members/ co-owners. Put each person's

If you make a cooperative, you have to know that you can’t design them; you can only grow them, like plants. If you grow one and you do it with other

As one man put it, “Especially now when the worst forms of masculinity feel ascendant, there are a lot of types of man I don't want to be, but very fe

I started wondering, who's offering a compelling alternative ideal of masculinity? I texted my friend Thomas Page McBee, who has written two books abo

Experiences with strangers can shape how we define our community and politics.

Remember in the before times how on hard days you could grab your work bestie and go have lunch blocks away from whatever was bothering you?

the loss of these small groups, in favor of nation-level organization of atomized individuals, has had serious consequences for human welfare and huma

Samuel Johnson, the literary giant and depressive, found much to fear in the quiet absence of loneliness. His best advice for those of a similarly mel

“You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction,” said the angel. “It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall e

What gets clicks becomes what gets made. The edges get sanded down. Originality gives way to imitation. Junk food wins, so everyone starts cooking cra

It takes yesterday’s trends, remixes them with today’s keywords, and spits out tomorrow’s mediocrity. It’s not thinking. It’s rehashing. Recursively,

We must choose the “longest way round” because meaning is neither fast nor viral nor optimized.It’s made. Slowly. Painfully. Honestly.By humans.

But what felt new was the speed and violence with which language now manifests markets. I’d sit in meetings as a single phrase “AI-native vertical Saa

Mumford’s claim is a provocation for us to consider what might be essential to a life that is full and whole, one in which we might find meaning, purp

To live is to be implicated. I take the language of implication, with its rich connotations, from Steven Garber, who writes about work and vocation fr

Christmas and New Year’s are two of the only holidays still widely observed in the United States. Meaning: the vast majority of non-emergency services

If you observe a sabbath, this feeling is not unfamiliar. You are well-acquainted with what others think of as the awkward restraints of just being. Y

Elon Musk on taking risks: "This is how civilizations decline. They quit taking risks. And when they quit taking risks, their arteries harden. Every

You are only as good as your ability to test your riskiest assumptions as quickly as possible.

Author and entrepreneur Eliot Peper on taking risks: "If you know something's going to work, it's not worth working on. It requires no courage. It r

Most critically, these roles tend to be self-reinforcing. Organizations using fear-based future narratives often develop risk-averse cultures that fur